Originally sent to the cloned bug report. -------- Resent Message -------- Subject: Bug#793593: [dbconfig-common] must be more robust during removal against packages not depending on command-line client Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:25:47 +0200 From: Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> To: 793...@bugs.debian.org CC: 353...@bugs.debian.org
> On 2015-07-25 13:53, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > > I think this is a bug in dbconfig-common; from a quick glance over > > its documentation the pdns package does exactly what the > > dbconfig-common docs say it should be doing, and nevertheless it's > > now buggy. This bug is related to the extremely long standing bug 353617 [1], although I recognize it is not the same. With the current state of affairs a package should indeed depend on the command-line client if configuration is to be done via dbconfig-common (the rational why the documentation says recommends is in bug 498226 [2]). [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353617 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498226
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