also sprach Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.16.1653 +0200]:
> If it's not working, you may have hit a bug in apt. I did just look at
> the code in apt-extracttemplates and it's still there, at least.
Was it there in sarge? Because I am hitting the bug reproducably
upgrading from sarge to si
Steve Langasek wrote:
> A pre-depend is not sufficient to ensure a package's availability when
> apt-preconfigure is run.
This is true, with the exception of dependencies on debconf itself.
dpkg-preconfigure should skip over packages that depend or pre-depend on
a version of debconf newer than the
also sprach Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.16.1235 +0200]:
> Writing your own debconf-escape is one option, another is to exit
> the .config script if debconf-escape is unavailable, deferring
> configuration until the postinst.
Thanks.
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On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 12:17:18PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> I have a problem without a clear solution. mdadm uses debconf-escape
> in it's debconf config file and declares a dependency on debconf (>=
> 1.4.72), as that command is only available from that version on.
> The problem is that ap
I have a problem without a clear solution. mdadm uses debconf-escape
in it's debconf config file and declares a dependency on debconf (>=
1.4.72), as that command is only available from that version on.
The problem is that apt-preconfigure runs long before APT even
worries about satisfying the ver
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