Retrying failed unpack should not cause critical message

[Robie Basak]

A Quantal netinst failed with "Failure while unpacking required packages. This will be attempted up to five times.". As (I presume) this is priority critical, it breaks my automated installation.

Please consider making this message less than critical.

The bug that caused this situation is bug 1001460.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I think that message needs to be critical if it happens. We always need to make sure it simply doesn't happen.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Works as intended. I don't know why anyone would accept a failure as anything less than critical.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

@Ken

Because if it can retry and succeed, then it wasn't a critical failure. An automatic installation could still succeed if the retry had been successful, but for the prompt that blocked it.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

However it would make sense to have a critical message if it has retried and given up, of course. Just not if it is merely going to retry.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Or, another way to look at this: the retry code is redundant if it cannot be used. I guess it still could manually, but why would you unnecessarily block automation then?