On Wednesday 25 Mar 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:28:19PM +0530, Raj Mathur wrote: > > At the very least, the configure script should tell the user to > > select "Unix profiles" if they don't know which one to select, > > This is the default behavior with any reasonable debconf > configuration. To have this problem, you have done all of: > > - set the debconf priority to medium or lower. > - configure debconf to use the readline frontend instead of the > default dialog frontend. > - not installed libterm-readline-gnu-perl. > > That's a pathological configuration. Don't do that. Correct any one > of the above, and you'll get sensible default behavior from > pam-auth-update (and from debconf generally).
That was exactly my configuration, and the problem got fixed when I installed libterm-readline-gnu-perl. However, whether the condition is pathological or not, it is still a valid configuration that can be reached by performing valid system tasks, and something breaking in that configuration is bug IMO. If you believe that I shouldn't have that configuration at all then reaching it must be prevented by other means (time to call in the debconf maintainers?). Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
