[Piuparts-devel] Bug#466118: Bug#466118: piuparts: force-confdef in dpkg configuration probably needed

[Lars Wirzenius]

On la, 2008-02-16 at 18:20 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Adding force-confdef to /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg seems to help here. I do
> not know whether it would be appropriate to use that option generally
> inside the piuparts chroot.

I think that would be wholly inappropriate to use generally. That's the
kind of problem piuparts is designed to find, so hiding them would be
counterproductive.

Again, this is something that apache2 uploaders should have taken care
of before uploading, and before causing trouble for other packages.