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

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 07:26:59PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> On la, 2008-02-16 at 18:20 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I think that would be wholly inappropriate to use generally. That's the
> kind of problem piuparts is designed to find, so hiding them would be
> counterproductive

How about offering a possibility to easily hide that problem when one
is trying to debug a wholly different package? I have today spent like
an hour on my own package and like eight hours getting familiar with
gory piuparts details and bugs in other packages.

> Again, this is something that apache2 uploaders should have taken care
> of before uploading, and before causing trouble for other packages.

So which package is the bug actually in?

Greetings
Marc

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