On 21/03/2018 20:17, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2018-03-19 22:34 +0100, Christian Göttsche wrote: > >> Package: whiptail >> Version: 0.52.20-3 >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Could you consider lowering the priority of whiptail from important to >> standard? > This has been done in the latest upload, but > > a) Priorities are set by the FTP masters, so the change has no effect. Yes, no effect until the FTP masters change priorities. > b) It does not look quite correct to me > The problem is that debconf uses whiptail as its default frontend, but > does _not_ depend on it, so that it does not need to be installed in > build chroots which normally use the "noninteractive" debconf frontend. > > For a usable debconf, you really need whiptail or dialog (or one of the > graphical frontends, but those have many additional dependencies and > require X). See debconf(7). Interesting corner case. Wouldn't setting Recommends: whiptail | dialog on debconf fix this ?
> Cheers, > Sven Regards Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry, <alast...@sceal.ie>, <mckins...@debian.org>, https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase “The innocent have nothing to fear,” believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like “The innocent have nothing to fear.” - T. Pratchett, Snuff
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