Bug#229648: cdebconf: "seen" handling broken
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 07:17:49AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
>> Umm, main-menu definitely did this before;
> Main-menu calls 'udpkg --configure --force-configure' to force
> maintainers scripts to be run, but that's all. Either main-menu
> or udpkg must tell cdebconf to display seen questions.
OK, it used to call dpkg-reconfigure, which set the environment variable. I
don't know who broke it and why, but it should be fixed. :-)
> Automated installations can set debconf/showold to false.
OK, that's a viable workaround for the time being, but it's not a solution in
the long run. (One could for instance be interested in a semi-automated
installation where some things are debconf preseeded and some things aren't.)
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