[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#631162: sympa: Package will not configure if dbconfig-common is not used

[Emmanuel Bouthenot]

Paul,

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:19:31AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:

[...]

> > It is planned to fix this bug in Debian Jessie by rewriting the whole
> > installation process for each backend.
> 
> That is not helpful to Debian Wheezy users. Keep in mind that Debian
> Wheezy is probably going to be the recommended release for the next
> three to four years.
Like it was for Debian Squeeze (this bug is present for a long time).

Anyway, wheezy is planned to be released in a few days, and the release
team will never agree for such fix.

> > Anyway, I'm lowering the severity to important. I think that severity
> > 'important' is more suitable in this case.
> 
> Sorry, I disagree after seeing how I was hit by this again. The DebConf
> message should clearly state, that installation is going to fail when
> not selecting dbconfig and point to a `README.Debian` with instructions
> how to manually fix it. I’d assume a gracefully failing postinst would
> be even better.
About the severity of this bug, you should take a look at the related
documentation[1].

The severity 'important' stand for "a bug which has a major effect on
the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to
everyone."

IMO, it fits perfectly for this bug.


[1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities


Regards,


M.

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