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Re: long daemon outages on upgrade



On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 01:00:58PM -0500, Daniel Martin <dtmartin2@earthlink.net> was heard to say:
> Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > The real problem, imho, is that apt leaves things in the unpacked and
> > unconfigured state too long.  I see no problem, with it doing partial
> > configures.
> > 
> > Ie, during an upgrade, when there are X number of unconfigured packages, go
> > and do a configure run.  However, the apt author doesn't want to do this, and
> > has given no good reason as to why.
> 
> Have you a reference on this?  Say a bug discussion or debian-devel
> thread?
> 
> I want to know the context of this decision.

  I think he's talking about stuff like #22550.

  Daniel

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