Andre Felipe Machado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
> This long standing bug report (Mar 2001), along with #92140, suggested
> some alternative solutions:
> 1- change debconf message to
> "debconf: note: preconfigure requires the apt-utils package, skipping"
> 2- move apt-extracttemplates to apt from apt-utils.
> 3- both solutions
> Given that 135 KB is not such a big deal these days, should the approach
> #2 be adopted?
> At #92140 it is cited as the settled solution, at November 2001, but
> #89060 cited after that date the libapt-pkg-perl proposal.
> The debconf already suggests apt-utils since 2000, I guess, and
> documented the preconfigure feature, but users may become suprised by
> the original message regarding apt-utils.
> What is the best solution?
First I think that is a post-lenny thing.
I believe that moving apt-extracttemplates to apt looks to be the most
sane solution for it. Another possibility would be to change apt-utils
from suggests to recommends in debconf making it available in most
cases.
What other people says?
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