Bug#870624: Acknowledgement (proftpd postinst hangs)

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>>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.

>Am 20.02.2018 um 13:32 teilte Matus UHLAR - fantomas mit:
>>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.

On 20.02.18 13:39, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
>Well, we can put the fix for 4312 into unstable.

great.

>>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.

I can confirm your patch works as expected.

since I reported problem with jessie (oldstable atm), I of course wish it to
be fixed there.

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