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Bug#470753: marked as done (glibc: Should use debconf to prompt for upgrades)

Your message dated Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:19:13 +0100
with message-id <47D97021.1060204@aurel32.net>
and subject line Re: Bug#470753: glibc: Should use debconf to prompt for upgrades
has caused the Debian Bug report #470753,
regarding glibc: Should use debconf to prompt for upgrades
to be marked as done.

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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

Attachment: glibc-prompt.png
Description: PNG image


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Version: 2.7-9

Frans Pop a écrit :
> 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.

That's already fixed in version 2.7-9. Closing the bug.

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