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Re: Bug#58594: base-config: apt-setup bug?



On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 02:55:05PM +0200, Gediminas Paulauskas was heard to say:
> I accidentaly configured Debconf as critical-mode, although wanted to answer
> everything what could be asked. But I couln't find any way how to
> re-configure Debconf. Now I can't see the existence of Debconf at all,
> because nothing is asked, and those questions, asking about whether to
> replace locally changed configuration files, work in simple text mode
> <Y|N|O|I....>
> 
> I consider it a Debconf bug, or documentation lack, or something else, but
> sure there are problems with this thing.

  Debconf's question about the priority mode is set to priority medium; to
reconfigure it you have to do 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow debconf' (I got bitten
by this once also :) )

<ASIDE>Joey, when I came across this you told me it was deliberate.  What's the
       reason for that?  It seems *really bad*, and likely to generate lots of
       confusion and spurious bug reports, to let the user 'paint themselves
       into a box' this way.  Could you consider making that question
       priority critical?</ASIDE>

  Daniel

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  You will soon forget this.


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