Re: What's the deal with apt, debconf and dpkg-preconfig?

[ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler)]

Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> This is what I wrote in the man page:
[...]

Thanks, I read it after installing man-db :)

> This might need some tuning to be a little more lenient if Replaces is
> being used, but really it isn't wise to be messing with essential packages
> like that..

Do you think there IS a bug? If so, it's probably perl related.
Can this be fixed?

I think, it will not affect fresh potato installs, but may confuse people
upgrading from slink.

  Ulf