On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:24:14AM +0100, Agustin Martin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:19:24PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Package: dictionaries-common > > Severity: important > > Version: 0.24.7 > > dictionaries-common needs to have an option in the debconf prompting > > such that a user can decline to have dictionaries-common munge their > > precious configuration settings. > > That is, if I've got a dicionary and hash file installed that > > dicionaries-common doesn't know about, I should be able to keep as my > > default if I've set the symlinks myself. > > [This probably is a serious bug, since it doesn't allow administrators > > to preserve their configuration file settings, but I'll leave the RC > > nature of this bug to your discretion.] > A fix for that is in unstable, for two weeks now, and I think this should go > into sarge. I have prepared a sarge package with this problem fixed, and > would like to know the release team opinion about the convenience of its > upload to testing-proposed-updates, since it involves changes that are > neither very small nor absolutely straightforward. Is there a reason not to push the version from unstable through to testing? That would give us the benefit of having a known tested package before it hits testing, at least. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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