Re: noisy mariadb-server-10.1 installation
Control: reassign -1 debconf
Control: forcemerge 863479 -1
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 07:21:20PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 perl 5.24.1-3
> Control: tag -1 stretch
> Control: retitle -1 perl: noisy about "Unescaped left brace in regex" on upgrades to stretch
>
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2017 16:59:38 +0300 Juha Heinanen <jh@tutpro.com> wrote:
> > During 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from jessie to stretch, this got printed
> > to console:
> >
> > Setting up mariadb-common (10.1.23-9+deb9u1) ...
> > Selecting previously unselected package mariadb-server-10.1.
> > (Reading database ... 72727 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Preparing to unpack .../mariadb-server-10.1_10.1.23-9+deb9u1_amd64.deb ...
> > Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(.*?)(\\)?\${ <-- HERE ([^{}]+)}(.*)$/ at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 72.
> > Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^}]+)}/ at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 30.
> >
> > Please fix so that the deprecated info does not get printed. If every
> > package would be as noisy, user couldn't comprehend anything about what
> > is going on.
>
> perl probably should silence this warning for stretch. Especially
> if it triggers on perl packages from jessie during the upgrade
> (because perl was upgraded first, and the package in question will
> be upgraded soon. Or should debconf in jessie be "fixed"?
This has already been discussed in #863479 where it was suggested
that this should be fixed in debconfi in a jessie point-release.
Regards,
Dominic.
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