Debian Bug report logs - #701740
debconf: move debconf-utils from Suggested to Recommended dep

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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: Sean Channel <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:09:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 1.5.46ubuntu1

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Bug#701740; Package debconf. (Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:09:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Sean Channel <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: debconf: move debconf-utils from Suggested to Recommended dep
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:07:44 -0800
Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.46ubuntu1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
        users are confounded by lack of debconf-utils when debconf is present

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
        informed the user to install debconf-utils.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
        Proposeds a workaround to "Recommend" debconf-utils in our application
pkg (Salt) on the relevant platforms (Ubuntu)

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
        N/A

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers quantal-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal'), (100, 'quantal-backports')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii  perl-base  5.14.2-13ubuntu0.1

Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii  apt-utils     0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2
ii  debconf-i18n  1.5.46ubuntu1

Versions of packages debconf suggests:
pn  debconf-doc                <none>
pn  debconf-utils              <none>
ii  libgtk2-perl               2:1.244-1ubuntu1
pn  libnet-ldap-perl           <none>
pn  libqtcore4-perl            <none>
pn  libqtgui4-perl             <none>
pn  libterm-readline-gnu-perl  <none>
ii  perl                       5.14.2-13ubuntu0.1
ii  whiptail                   0.52.11-2ubuntu11

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