Bug#870624: Acknowledgement (proftpd postinst hangs)

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>On 03.08.2017 16:23, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>> after another attempt, it seems that proftpd process has FIFO open to
>> frontend, which prevents the frontend from finishing.
>> new process numbers here:

On 19.02.18 23:50, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
>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.

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.

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