[Piuparts-commits] rev 475 - piatti/home/piupartsm/bin/known_problems

[Holger Levsen]

Author: holger
Date: 2009-08-09 09:06:23 +0000 (Sun, 09 Aug 2009)
New Revision: 475

Modified:
   piatti/home/piupartsm/bin/known_problems/conffile_prompt_error.conf
Log:
explain why this is bad

Modified: piatti/home/piupartsm/bin/known_problems/conffile_prompt_error.conf
===================================================================
--- piatti/home/piupartsm/bin/known_problems/conffile_prompt_error.conf	2009-08-08 11:38:39 UTC (rev 474)
+++ piatti/home/piupartsm/bin/known_problems/conffile_prompt_error.conf	2009-08-09 09:06:23 UTC (rev 475)
@@ -8,5 +8,7 @@
 <p>
 The piuparts upgrade test failed because dpkg detected a conffile as being modified and then prompted the user for an action. As there is no user input, this fails. But this is not the real problem, the real problem is that this prompt shows up in the first place, as there was nobody modifying this conffile at all, the package has just been installed and upgraded...
 </p>
-
+<p>
+This is explained in detail in policy 10.7.3 at <a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3">http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3</a> which says "[These scripts handling conffiles] must not ask unnecessary questions (particularly during upgrades), and must otherwise be good citizens."
+</p>
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