Bug#232623: unknown owner

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:01:34AM +0100, sylvain ferriol wrote:
[...]
> >Because you did not tell cdebconf to have a specific owner,
> >run 'cdebconf -ofoo' to set one.
>
> but if i get the original code:
> 
> module_probe() {
>    module="$1"
>    db_subst ethdetect/module_params MODULE "$module"
>    db_input low ethdetect/module_params || [ $? -eq 30 ]
>    db_go
>    db_get ethdetect/module_params
> 
> in questions.dat , the owner is debian
> and i did not found a 'cdebconf -o debian' command

Because rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer.d/S20templates calls
  debconf-loadtemplate debian /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.templates
so all questions are owned by 'debian'.  When another question
is REGISTERed, it is owned by 'unknown' unless cdebconf was
called with the -o option.  This is similar to debconf, try
 echo REGISTER debconf/priority debconf/priority-reg | debconf-communicate

Denis