Bug#411585: pinging bug
severity 411585 important
tag 411585 +confirmed
thanks
I am marking this bug as important and confirmed for various reasons. I
am finding it with purge rather than unregister. However it seems likely
that that purge is defined in terms of unregister, or at least that they
share code. Unregister is realtively obscure whilst purge is always used.
The debconf-devel(7) man page is fairly clear: "It [purge] removes all
of your package's questions from the debconf's database". I have found
that this works under debconf but not cdebconf. Note however that if you
restrict yourself to debconf-show it appears to work. You have to either
view the cache file or reinstall a purged package to see if it failed
or worked.
This difference in behaviour from the documentation and the debconf
implementation, is enough for me to think that this bug eport should
actually be severe, but may be oters woud disagree.
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