unnecessary debconf prompt on upgrade
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dictionaries-common (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Martin Pitt | ||
| Precise |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Martin Pitt | ||
Bug Description
On upgrade to the latest precise daily, update-
Before the debconf prompt, the following console output was displayed:
[ispell,
The changelog of today's dictionaries-common upload includes this comment:
* Drop the debconf priority change in dc-debconf-
Agustin this is only shown in error cases now, which we actually do want.
seems this isn't terribly accurate.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 4 11:09:51 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-08 (56 days ago)
| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in dictionaries-common (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| assignee: | nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti) |
| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in dictionaries-common (Ubuntu Precise): | |
| status: | Triaged → In Progress |
| milestone: | none → precise-alpha-2 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in dictionaries-common (Ubuntu Precise): | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Unfortunately I'm not able to actually reproduce this. I tried precise->precise, oneiric live CD -> precise, and my oneiric stable VM -> precise; in my workstation both debconf questions have a value, in the other two cases they were undefined.
But anyway, the debconf error should only be shown if there actually is a defined value which doesn't correspond to a package. Complaining about "undefined" indeed doesn't make much sense.