[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#640939: Bug#640939: Raising severity of 640939

[Brian Potkin]

On Fri 07 Sep 2012 at 00:04:55 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 04:12:34PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> 
> > Progressing to the end of the install was a matter of pressing the Enter
> > key each time the root password was asked for.
> 
> Yeah, that's it.  It looks like the issue here is that cups prompts to
> use Basic authentication when there's no chance that will work.  So once
> it stops doing that, the upgrade issue will go away automatically.

You don't fancy reducing the severity of the bug, do you? None of the
package maintainer scripts are doing the prompting, only Kerberos users
are affected and there is an easy way to work round it.

Cheers,

Brian.