Debian Bug report logs - #12617
FIXED in NUM [was: dpkg: unchecked prompting in postinst]

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Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Giuliano Procida <gpp10@cus.cam.ac.uk>

To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dpkg: unchecked prompting in postinst

Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:56:54 +0100

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.19

This package appears to violate Debian Policy; section 2.3.8
("Maintainer scripts") of the current Policy Manual states:

"Any necessary prompting should almost always be confined to the
post-installation script, and should be protected with a conditional
so that unnecessary prompting doesn't happen if a package's
installation fails and the postinst is called with abort-upgrade,
abort-remove or abort-deconfigure."

This bug report was produced automatically and there is a small chance
that it is erroneous. My apologies should this be the case.

Giuliano Procida.

Message #10 received at 12617@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>

To: Giuliano Procida <gpp10@cus.cam.ac.uk>

Cc: 12617@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: dpkg: unchecked prompting in postinst

Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 14:11:40 +0200

	The dpkg.{pre,post}inst scripts are very intrincated, but they
only ask things when upgrading.

	So I think this bug can be closed.  Can you check it?

	Thanks.

-- 
Juan Cespedes

Message #15 received at 12617@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Giuliano P Procida <gpp10@cam.ac.uk>

To: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>

Cc: 12617@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: dpkg: unchecked prompting in postinst

Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 11:38:54 +0200

Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org> wrote:

> The dpkg.{pre,post}inst scripts are very intrincated, but they only
> ask things when upgrading.

I think this is true.

> So I think this bug can be closed.  Can you check it?

I checked the two files briefly and things seem OK.

Giuliano.
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Message #20 received at 12617@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>

To: control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 10072@bugs.debian.org, 12617@bugs.debian.org, 13598@bugs.debian.org, 13892@bugs.debian.org, 14696@bugs.debian.org, 16091@bugs.debian.org, 16527@bugs.debian.org, 17732@bugs.debian.org

Subject: retitling fixed bugs

Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 22:58:30 +0200

retitle 10072 FIXED in NMU [was: dpkg: dpkg-source cannot unpack source]
retitle 12617 FIXED in NUM [was: dpkg: unchecked prompting in postinst]
retitle 13598 FIXED in NMU [was: dpkg-ftp should depend on `awk']
retitle 13892 FIXED in NMU [was: dpkg: should depend on awk]
retitle 14696 FIXED in NMU [was: Typo? in Debian packaging manual]
retitle 16091 FIXED in NMU [was: dpkg: dselect won't read Packages from sunsite]
retitle 16527 FIXED in NMU [was: link shared libs against other shared libs]
retitle 17732 FIXED in NMU [was: dpkg suddnely has problems unpacking many .debs]
stop

	Some of these bugs haven't really been fixed by a NMU: some of
them are not bugs, some have been fixed by an official release and
some have been fixed by other packages.  However, I think it's easier
to use the same title on all of them.

Comments:
10072 was fixed a lot of time ago
12617 is not a bug (the submitter agrees on this)
13598 and 13892 have already been fixed by base-files_1.7
16091 was probably a bug in sunsite's mirror; it's not a bug in dpkg
17732 was the "chown/lchown" bug in kernel 2.1.8x

-- 
Juan Cespedes

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