Debian Bug report logs - #269598
debconf should have versioned dependancy to debconf-i18n

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Package: debconf; Maintainer for debconf is Debconf Developers <[email protected]>; Source for debconf is src:debconf (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Mantas Kriaučiūnas <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 1.3.20

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From: Mantas Kriaučiūnas <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: debconf should have versioned dependancy to debconf-i18n
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 15:35:16 +0300
Package: debconf
Version: 1.3.20
Severity: normal

Hi,

I think debconf should have versioned dependancy to debconf-i18n, because
in current situation command "apt-get install debconf" doesn't upgrade
debconf-i18n - it only upgrades an debconf metapackage and leaves
outdated debconf-i18n or debconf-english, this misleads lots of users.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux dubrava.homelinux.org 2.6.5-1-k7 #2 Fri Apr 30 20:46:35 EST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=lt_LT, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT

Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii  debconf-i18n                  1.3.20     full internationalization support 
ii  perl-base                     5.8.4-2    The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

-- debconf information:
* debconf/priority: medium
* debconf/frontend: Gnome




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