Bug#870624: Acknowledgement (proftpd postinst hangs)

[Hilmar Preuße]

Am 20.02.2018 um 13:32 teilte Matus UHLAR - fantomas mit:
> On 19.02.18 23:50, Hilmar Preuße wrote:

Hi,

>> After removing the following line from
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/proftpd-basic.postinst the installation works OK.
>>
>> #. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
>>
>> As we don't use debconf any more he removal should not hurt.
> 
> Just FYI:
> 
> according to the http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4312
> the fix should be fixed and backported to 1.3.6.
> 
Well, we can put the fix for 4312 into unstable.

> there's still a bug: http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4312#c5
> 
> but manual backport of the patch to 1.3.5e helped, I was able to
> build and install jessie (1.3.5-1.1+deb8u2), stretch (1.3.5b-4) and
> sid (1.3.5e-1) packages.
> 
I'm not sure if we should upload the patch into stable or if we rather 
should use my proposed work around. At least for stable that should be 
possible, oldstable still has debconf integration so we can't apply it 
there.

Hilmar
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