[Piuparts-devel] Bug#466118: piuparts: force-confdef in dpkg configuration probably needed

[Marc Haber]

Package: piuparts
Version: 0.30
Severity: wishlist

piuparts -d etch -d lenny fails when the package being tested depends
on apache2 because apache2's maintainer scripts modify
/etc/default/apache2, which causes dpkg to issue a conffile question
during the upgrade procedure, which makes piuparts fail.

Adding force-confdef to /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg seems to help here. I do
not know whether it would be appropriate to use that option generally
inside the piuparts chroot.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2-zgsrv (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages piuparts depends on:
ii  apt                        0.7.10        Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  debootstrap                1.0.8         Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  lsb-release                3.1-24        Linux Standard Base version report
ii  lsof                       4.78.dfsg.1-4 List open files
ii  python                     2.4.4-6       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-debian              0.1.9         python modules to work with Debian

piuparts recommends no packages.

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