Re: debian-installer/main-menu/debian changelog,1.239,1.240

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 05:54:17PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Denis Barbier wrote:
> > Update of /cvsroot/d-i/debian-installer/main-menu/debian
> > In directory quantz:/tmp/cvs-serv16866/debian
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> > 	changelog 
> > Log Message:
> > When a package is reconfigured, set debconf/showold to true and
> > restore the previous value after executing package script.
> > 
> > 
> > Index: changelog
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvsroot/d-i/debian-installer/main-menu/debian/changelog,v
> > retrieving revision 1.239
> > retrieving revision 1.240
> > diff -u -d -r1.239 -r1.240
> > --- changelog	6 Feb 2004 00:18:13 -0000	1.239
> > +++ changelog	7 Feb 2004 21:22:12 -0000	1.240
> > @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
> > +main-menu (0.057) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
> > +
> > +  * Denis Barbier
> > +    - When a package is reconfigured, set debconf/showold to true and
> > +      restore the previous value after executing package script.
> > +      As soon as this package is uploaded, cdebconf-udeb can set
> > +      debconf/showold to false by default to fix #229648.
> > +
> > + -- Denis Barbier <barbier@debian.org>  Sat,  7 Feb 2004 21:41:24 +0100
> > +
> 
> Won't this make it kind of hard to preseed a debconf db and force some
> questions not to be shown?

On the contrary, this change helps in this area, see #229648.

Denis