[Pkg-shadow-devel] Versioned dependency on debconf?

[Christian Perrier]

00:00 < nekral> bubulle: can you have a look at the lintian error on passwd:
00:01 < nekral> settitle-requires-versioned-depends config
00:02 < nekral> (Debconf only supports the SETTITLE command as of version 1.3.22. To ensure upgrades work correctly,
                packages that use this new command should declare a dependency on that version of debconf.
00:02 < nekral> My question is not about how to add the dependency, but does we really need SETTITLE?
00:04 < nekral> statically linking nologin made added a lintian error. If we choose to keep it statically linlked, we
                will have to add an override.
00:05 < nekral> (ditto for linda)


I suggest we ignore this. The debconf stuff is planned to be
abandoned. So, adding this dependency would only be temporary.

I'll remove the debconf thing and all prompting, which is used only in
D-I, as soon as the D-I team decides that D-I etch beta1 (which still
uses this code) is no more supported.

This will happen when beta2 will be out, so around end January. As a
consequence, I don't think it's worth changing the dependency.


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