[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#726801: biomaj: fails to install with Recommends enabled

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-11-10 08:59, olivier.sallou at codeless.fr wrote:
> Just for info, I pushed biomaj 1.2.3-2 to fix the test in d/config for 
> non-interactive mode (but no impact on java test/setup).
I won't mind if you downgrade the severity to make this migrate to testing.

> Should we in this case push the bug to the Java team ?

http://bugs.debian.org/641049

I bumped the severity, and proposed a (completely untested) solution.

> This means that all packages needing java in a postinst (there may need
> be many) should fail this test.

Only if they are unlucky and get configured in the wrong order.

But if you have an idea how to make this "wrong order" more likely, I'd
like to implement it in piuparts :-)


Andreas