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

[Lars Wirzenius]

On la, 2008-02-16 at 18:31 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.

Some kind of overrides facility like lintian has should be doable,
although it'll probably need to wait until piuparts gets some serious
re-designing for flexibility.

> > 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?

If apache2 doesn't upgrade properly, then I guess the bug is in apache2.