-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 27/06/2010 07:00, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit : > Hi Holger,
Hi Holger, Thijs, > On tiisdei 22 Juny 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: >> On Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: >>> Why? It's not configured, it won't work, why should it pretend the >>> installation was successful? >> >> because you want the package in stable? >> >> having packages installable is a release goal, else packages are not >> suited for a stable release. > > A fix has been committed for this bug but I'm not convinced that this is the > right one. > > I don't think your reasoning quoted above is technically sound. We do not fix > bugs 'because a release goal says so' but because we think the change is a > technically better situation. > > In my opinion the current situation is: > > 1) Package needs SQL database to function; > 2) Package asks for SQL info in configuration stage; > 3) Reporter does not supply apt SQL info; > 4) Package is unable to contact database and cannot complete setup; > 5) Package fails installation. > > That seems correct to me, because the package is not useful without a > configured database, and retrying configuring the package with correct > database information would solve that problem. If we would instead just claim > that installation is successful, where it in fact is not, we end up with a > 'successfully' installed package that doesn't work. That doesn't seem like an > improvement to me. May I add a comment on this one: I usually don't let dbconfig-common configure my databases, at least when I install phpbb3. I prefer to configure each database in order to use the multiboard trick, and the first board created in the postint script doesn't fit my needs, so I guess that Jean-Marc fix for this one seems fine: let the package be installed, and let the user read the README.* files in order to configure phpbb3 the way that fits her needs. Cheers David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwnOtUACgkQ18/WetbTC/oNEwCggqg2LjEXgPm57DGgkpVogdMj Rz0AnAhA+uYJwvYBsoVQu6XycBrTzjAX =vCDC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
