Package: glibc Version: 2.7.6 Severity: important Tags: d-i Currently when a user does an installation using debian-installer and the version of glibc is lower than the one included on the installation CD, the installation will hang during the "select and install software" stage (tasksel). Reason is that glibc prompts on stdout for confirmation of the upgrade and the user has no way to respond to that prompt. Policy 3.9.1 says: Prompting should be done by communicating through a program, such as debconf, which conforms to the Debian Configuration management specification, version 2 or higher. Prompting the user by other means, such as by hand[8], is now deprecated. Please change to using debconf for the upgrade prompt to avoid breaking installs. TIA, Frans Pop -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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