[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#631162: sympa: Package will not configure if dbconfig-common is not used

[Emmanuel Bouthenot]

severity 631162 important
thanks

Hi Paul,

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 04:56:28PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
[...]

> I hit the same problem when upgrading from 5.3.4-6.1 in Lenny to
> Squeeze. Unfortunately neither the NEWS.Debian.gz nor the commits in the
> Git packaging repository mention what to do in such a case and if it is
> mandatory and how to work with dbconfig-common at all.
> 
> It is not clear at all if dbconfig-common *has* to be used or if it is
> optional.
This is an annoying bug but actually sympa is not ready to be installed
without dbconfig.

It is planned to fix this bug in Debian Jessie by rewriting the whole
installation process for each backend.

Anyway, I'm lowering the severity to important. I think that severity
'important' is more suitable in this case.

Regards,

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