Bug#50411: debconf should be upgraded first.

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

reassign 50411 debconf
retitle 50411 dpkg-preconfig should do basic dependnacy check
thanks

Seth R Arnold wrote:
> I think apt-get upgrade should make upgrading debconf a high priority,
> higher than most other packages. I have seen three times, on two different
> computers, apt-get upgrade fail because a certain package must have
> pre-depended on a certain version of debconf, without actually specifying
> the Predepend: debconf (>>x.xx). The error messages are non-intuitive at the
> least.

No, apt should not treat debconf specially. Debconf is going to be modified
to detect packages that try to use newer versions of it than are available,
and skip preconfiguring them.

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see shy jo