Re: Perl/Debconf broken in woody?
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.
Pre-depends can not be used. config scripts can be run before a package is
ever sent to dpkg for processing.
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