Bug#229648: reopened showold bug

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:06:57AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> I've reopened this bug because the hack of making main-menu set showold
> when reconfiguring is not good enough. Sure, it works for reconfiguring.
> But if a menu item fails, or backs up to the menu, the package is left
> half-configured. In this case, when it's run again, main-menu does a
> udpkg --configure, and does not set showold first. So whatever you did
> wrong in answering that menu items's questions can't be undone, since it
> doesn't redisplay the questions to you. Potentially kinda bad..
> 
> Short-term, I think it would be better to back out the patch that closed
> this bug, the original behavior that prompted the bug is not as bad as
> this.
> 
> Brain-storming other ways to fix it..

For the record, there is also another way explained in #220868.

> - Make cdebconf in d-i honor the seen flag if it's set -- but never set
>   it even when displaying questions. This would let database preseeders
>   do their thing, while letting us not worry about the status of the
>   seen flag at all. There could be a special cdebconf/mark_seen that is
>   forced to false in d-i.

Ok, sounds good, I'll commit a fix soon.

Denis