Re: Perl/Debconf broken in woody?
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Santiago Vila wrote:
> David A. Greene wrote:
> > 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.
> I would file a serious bug against `catalog'.
> This not the first time a package in woody contains a debconf template
> which debconf in potato is unable to parse (see Bug #106360 for an example).
> Since we can't move debconf in woody to potato the only solution is to fix
> whatever template in woody makes debconf in potato to fail.
I agree that a serious bug should be filed against catalog, but shouldn't the
resolution of the bug be to add the appropriate versioned pre-depends: to the
package? There's nothing wrong with being incompatible with potato as long as
you declare the incompatibility.
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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