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

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 08:59:44PM -0000, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> 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.

No, not at all.  Priority refers to the *ordering* of modules in the stack,
it does not refer to which one should be *preferred* in the case of
conflicts.

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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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