On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 06:26:51PM +0100, Ludovico Cavedon wrote: > But now I have a question without answer: if > -the question about the password was never asked, and > -there is no way to ask the user (e.g. running non-interactive) > should the postinst phase: > -fail, or > -set a randomly generated password?
I think that we should just leave it unset. The package will not fail to install although, the daemon will fail to start. When running non-interactively I would expect preseeding to be used, where the debconf values can be set ahead of time. The README.Debian still contains information about setting a password at the top. The daemon failing to start which required setting the admin password manually was the behavior of the 3.x packages. I do not think that it will hurt to do this in the case a password can not be retrieved from the user. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
