Bug#165921: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#165921: libc6: Please use debconf to warn of likely breakage on major upgrade)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

reopen 165921
thanks

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:11:11AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:51:47PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > reopen 165921
> > thanks
> > 
> > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:18:14PM -0600, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > >...
> > > Sorry, We cannot make libc6 depend on debconf. That would make debconf
> > > more essential than libc6. You can see the circular dep problem.
> > 
> > These questions are only relevant when upgrading libc6.
> > The vast majority of woody installations has debconf installed due to
> > other packages depending on debconf.
> 
> If you are upgrading to woody, one can also assume you have read the
> upgrade part of the woody release notes. The libc6 issues would be
> documented there.

Please read my original mail in this bug, my wish was to replace the
existing "Restarting services" question with a debconf question.
Managing it through debconf would make it more easy to get a
noninteractive upgrade of Debian.

cu
Adrian

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