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



Mark Brown wrote:
> I've found some more instances of this problem.  I managed to catch a
> diff of the config files before and after the upgrade, though I didn't
> remember to rerun the upgrade or cache the entire database:

Now I understand. This is because debootstrap installs packages using
the noninteractive frontend which does not set questions to seen as the
user has indeed not seen them. It's true that this could lead to some
questions that have already set and presumably working values being asked
on upgrade. 

I don't know of a good way to avoid this at this time; debconf's
handling of the seen flag for the noninteractive frontend is basically
correct; debootstrap's use of the noninteractive frontend is correct,
and there's no way d-i can go back after the fact and mark questions as
seen.

-- 
see shy jo

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