[Bug 965662] Re: pam-auth-update conflict resolution shouldn't warn

[Steve Langasek]

This is entirely by design.  The pop-up is informing the user that there
was a conflict and that *they need to review the list of selected
modules*, because there's nothing about the resolution mechanism that
guarantees the result is what you want.

The only reason the resolution mechanism exists at all is to ensure that
pam-auth-update doesn't get into an infinite loop when using the
noninteractive debconf frontend.

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  pam-auth-update conflict resolution shouldn't warn

Status in “pam” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  After automatically resolving conflicts in pam-config stubs, pam-auth-
  update will still pop up a warning notification that requires the user
  to select [Ok].

  Requiring user interaction kind of defeats the purpose of having the
  automatic Conflicts and Priority conflict-resolution mechanism, and
  the priority-"high" warning box for presenting non-essential
  information is itself arguably a policy violation.

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