On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:04:52AM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:38:37PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > Package: base-passwd,exim,fdutils,libc6 > > So is it possible to have bugs, which belong to several packages > at once? I did not know this before.
It's possible, and mail will be sent to all the maintainers as you'd expect, but the web interface doesn't show them properly (see bug #lots against bugs.debian.org). They're a bit of a pain to manage in cases like this, though. > > if [ $build_db -eq 1 ]; then > > frontend=`echo "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'` > > if [ "$frontend" = noninteractive ]; then > > # Run in the foreground. In this case, chances are we're being run > > Is this the proposed fix or is this the problem? > > The fdutils postinst contains the lines > > if [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" ]; then > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=`echo "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" | tr A-Z a-z` > fi > > if [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" != "noninteractive" ] \ > && dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt "5.2.0.1998-07-01-3"; then > ... > > which seems ok to me. What is the problem you see? Junichi is suggesting that the postinsts of our four packages should tolerate receiving $DEBIAN_FRONTEND in lower case, as man-db does. In my previous mail I claim that this is no longer necessary. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
