Bug#238301: After installer has run many debconf questions are not seeded

[Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>]

clone 238301 -1
reassign -1 setserial
thanks

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:14:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > During the installer run many packages (for example, setserial) appear
> > to get installed without their debconf configuration scripts being run.
> > This means that when the packages get upgraded they prompt for
> > configuration.

> Incorrect, they are installed in the normal way but with the
> noninteractive debconf frontend. The config scripts run. Any package
> that behaves as you describe when installed this way is broken; this is

setserial is one of the packages I remember doing this to me on upgrade
- it prompted me for autosave-types.

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