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

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

"need"  is an awfully strong word.

As documented, the resolution mechanism compares priorities on the
affected modules to determine which one to use in case of a conflict.
That's what guarantees the result is what you want, or at least what the
package maintainers wanted the default behavior to be when those modules
were selected together.

In situations where such a conflict can be resolved automatically
through the use of priorities, there is no reason to require user
interaction.

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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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