reassign 636560 debconf forcemerge 560317 636560 thanks On 08/04/2011 05:35 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Package: cron > Version: 3.0pl1-118 > Severity: serious > Justification: debconf failure > > When doing dpkg-reconfigure cron I get the message: > dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: couldn't identify the package.
This is a known issue with debconf (see the list of bugs already merged with 560317). > Because this is a package breakage it's a violation of debian policy > (generally package bugs are RC even if it affects usability less than a > software bug). I'm afraid that's incorrect, especially the part in parentheses. See [0] for documentation on what type of bugs really merit a severity of "serious". Regards, Christian [0] http://release.debian.org/wheezy/rc_policy.txt
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