Re: Bug#992693: bullseye-pu: package glibc/2.31-13+deb11u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Tue, 2021-09-21 at 23:47 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
[...]
> In the meantime another issue that would need to be fixed in sid
> > > came
> as
> bug#994042. 
> 
> This time the issue is in the preinst. To summarize, in the case
> debconf is not usable to prompt the user about the upgrade, the
> preinst switches to text prompt. However as the debconf module has
> been loaded got control of the tty, which prevent any input from the
> user. For skilled users it still possible to kill the upgrade from
> another, but other users will probably try other actions that might
> have damaging effects (like rebooting the system).
> 
> The fix is to get the debconf configuration without using the debconf
> module, as suggested by Colin Watson.
> 

Thanks. That looks OK to me, particularly with Colin's review.

Is there an ETA for getting the fix into unstable?

Regards,

Adam