[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#640939: Bug#640939: Raising severity of 640939

[brian m. carlson]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 12:19:06PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Fri 07 Sep 2012 at 00:04:55 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 04:12:34PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > 
> > > Progressing to the end of the install was a matter of pressing the Enter
> > > key each time the root password was asked for.
> > 
> > Yeah, that's it.  It looks like the issue here is that cups prompts to
> > use Basic authentication when there's no chance that will work.  So once
> > it stops doing that, the upgrade issue will go away automatically.
> 
> You don't fancy reducing the severity of the bug, do you? None of the
> package maintainer scripts are doing the prompting, only Kerberos users
> are affected and there is an easy way to work round it.

I don't especially.  The fact is that the bug does cause the upgrade
process to hang, and since it very often happens during a dovecot
upgrade (coincidentally, but frequently), it means that important
services are down for longer than I want (and when I notice, I'm often
not in a position to fix the problem).  This would be an even worse
disaster if it happened at the same time as a postfix upgrade.  Upgrades
must be able to run unattended, period.

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