On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 04:51:58PM -0000, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> > that the approach in the debdiff I attached here in
> > comment #23 is the safest way to go.
> In that case, you might want to add a brief mention in the changelog
> entry that people who are already seeing the "doubled" messages can fix
> them by removing/emptying the motd.tail file manually....
We had code once before to fix up the doubled messages; we should apply that
code in this SRU as well. I think it's just changing a version check in the
postinst.
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 04:51:58PM -0000, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> > that the approach in the debdiff I attached here in
> > comment #23 is the safest way to go.
> In that case, you might want to add a brief mention in the changelog
> entry that people who are already seeing the "doubled" messages can fix
> them by removing/emptying the motd.tail file manually....
We had code once before to fix up the doubled messages; we should apply that
code in this SRU as well. I think it's just changing a version check in the
postinst.
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Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
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