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Bug#229648: cdebconf: "seen" handling broken



On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:11:17AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> 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.

Umm, main-menu definitely did this before; has somebody broken it?

In any case, it's simply wrong to set a broken default in cdebconf
just because other tools are broken, especially when there's no sane
workaround -- automated installations with the current cdebconf just
won't work...

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