Frans Pop wrote: > Could you take a look at this from a cdebconf perspective? Well, from a debconf perspective at least.. > Apparently a db_register does not "copy" the _value_ of the question for > the template the new question is being linked to. This seems sane to me. > After all, you are linking the new question to a template, not to an > existing question. > In normal use, the _default_ set for the language-specific template _does_ > work as that is a value inherited from the *template*. Seems consistent > to me. Yes. > I also see that a question keeps its value even if it is unregistered and > re-registered after setting the value. Is that correct? Depends on internal garbage collection implementation probably. Not true of debconf: root@kodama:~>debconf-communicate register debconf/frontend foo/bar 0 get foo/bar 0 Dialog set foo/bar baz 0 value set get foo/bar 0 baz unregister foo/bar 0 get foo/bar 10 foo/bar doesn't exist register debconf/priority foo/bar 0 get foo/bar 0 high unregister foo/bar 0 -- see shy jo
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