[Pkg-roundcube-maintainers] Bug#595744: roundcube-core: impossible to answer debconf question

[Vincent Bernat]

reassign 595744 dbconfig-common
thanks

OoO Peu avant le début de  l'après-midi du lundi 06 septembre 2010, vers
13:30, Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> disait :

> Package: roundcube
> Version: 0.3.1-4
> Severity: normal

> When upgrading my debian installation I'm faced with this debconf question,
> every time the updated packages includes roundcube:

>  ┌──────────────────────┤ Configuring roundcube-core ├───────────────────────┐
>  │                                                                           │
>  │ Since you are reconfiguring roundcube, you may also want to reinstall     │
>  │ the database which it uses.                                               │
>  │                                                                           │
>  │ If you wish to reinstall the database for roundcube, you should select    │
>  │ this option.  If you do not wish to do so (if you are reconfiguring the   │
>  │ package for unrelated reasons), you should not select this option.        │
>  │                                                                           │
>  │ Reinstall database for roundcube?                                         │
>  │                                                                           │
>  │                    <Yes>                       <No>                       │
>  │                                                                           │
>  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

This message comes from dbconfig-common.

> The above message gives me absolutely no help at all!

> It basically just fills up the entire screen saying there are two options
> to choose, and I can only choose one of them.

> "Since you are reconfiguring roundcube,..."
> I'm not..... I'm just upgrading my debian installation.

That's true. I don't know if  a config script can detect an upgrade from
a reconfigure.  I don't  find what could  have triggered this  change in
dbconfig-common. I reassign this bug to dbconfig-common.
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