Bug#165921: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#165921: libc6: Please use debconf to warn of likely breakage on major upgrade)
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:00:45AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:47:33 +0200,
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > Nowadays "restarting services" question is ready for noninteractive
> > > upgrade. We assume "Yes" at that mode. So if you want to use debconf
> > > for noninteractive upgrade, it's already fixed. If you have no
> > > objection, I'll close it.
> >
> > You might not like my answer, but to be honest, I still don't like
> > questions being asked during postinst even for interactive upgrades.
>
> Then how about Ben's comment; ie. debconf may not be available. If
> you don't have any proposed ways, then the answer is: unfortunatelly
> no.
Shouldn't it be possible to use debconf if it is available?
debconf should work both at configuration prior to installation and at
the time postinst runs.
> Regards,
> -- gotom
cu
Adrian
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