Bug#527641: Package installation overwrites /etc/default/console-setup without warning
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:45:55PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>
> Well, when I reported #528033, something had lost my "bepo" setting
> on upgrade without me doing dpkg-reconfigure console-setup. I assumed
> it was already reported since 527641 said "Package installation overwrites
> /etc/default/console-setup without warning" in its title. Thas was
> consistent with what I saw: /etc/default/console-setup had been
> modified/overwritten without my consent to something that did not match my
> manual configuration. I didn't see how you adressed that by supporting
> empty values... so I reopened the bug.
You are right. #528033 was completely different problem and it was
fixed by this:
* Escape commas in Debconf questions. Thanks to Raphaël Hertzog,
closes: #528033.
Anton Zinoviev
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