Re: Perl/Debconf broken in woody?
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Monday 13 August 2001 05:13, you wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > > > That's only a workaround.
> > > >
> > > > debconf templates in woody *should* work with debconf in potato.
> > > > File a serious bug.
> > >
> > > Just a dependancy bug. Apparantly catalog should have depended on a newer
> > > version of debconf.
> >
> > This will not work. config scripts can be run before a package is even
> > installed, so they should only work with what is already on the
> > system(which means essential/required pkgs).
>
> Isn't that what predepends is for?
Nope. dpkg has not even run yet, nothing in the dependency chain can be used.
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