Bug#229648: cdebconf: "seen" handling broken

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 09:10:10PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Package: cdebconf
> Severity: important
> Tags: d-i
> 
> cdebconf "seen" handling seems to be broken again -- I've preseeded
> debconf with the information that "autopartkit/confirm" is seen, yet
> autopartkit asks me if I really want to use the automatic partitioning
> tool. (autopartkit does not "fset seen false" before the question, like
> it used to earlier, so I doubt the bug is there.)

Udpkg (and maybe other tools?) must set debconf/showold (or
DEBCONF_SHOWOLD) to true when reconfiguring packages, and when
this is done, cdebconf can safely set debconf/showold to false
by default.

Denis