Re: Perl/Debconf broken in woody?

["David A. Greene" <greened@eecs.umich.edu>]

Adam Heath 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).

So what's the verdict?  _Something_ is wrong and I believe a bug report
should go somewhere, but it's not clear to me who is responsible for a
fix.

See also my message about other catalog difficulties.

                            -Dave

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