On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 11:36:48PM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 19:44:26 -0400 > Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote: > > David> On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 16:28:51 -0400 (EDT) > > David> Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote: > > >> 1) PAM upgrades from woody force users to answer a dpkg > > >> conffile question. > > > > David> I don't mind. And the solution suggested seems error-prone > > David> and difficult for a user to easily understand. > > > > The behavior without the solution is difficult for users to > > understand. > You're saying that *conffile* prompts are difficult for an admin to > understand? Are you sure these folk are using Debian? It is difficult for a user to understand why they're being asked about whether they want to keep their locally modified copy of a config file they never modified. For some users, it's not difficult, because they know enough to recognize this as the result of a serious-severity bug; but woody shipped with that bug, so the damage is done. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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