Bug#1106127: blendsel: Blendsel does not install hamradio blend from installer

[Dave Hibberd <hibby@debian.org>]

Package: blendsel
Version: 0.8
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: hibby@debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org

When installing debian from RC-1 netinst on a VM, I am unable to install the
'hamradio' blend packages with blendsel. The installation step skips straight
to the next step without downloading any files from the repo.
This is true for both graphical and text installers.

Running blendsel on my own machine prompts the expected response. Trying to apt
install task-hamradio-blend similarly installs packages as I'd expect.

The only things I can think are to blame is that there are two applications
requiring interaction through debconf (radioclk, xastir) and something that
removes systemd-timesyncd - again, I think this is radioclk, it Recommends: ntp
(>= 1:4.2.2+dfsg-1) | ntpsec | chrony

Will blendsel in d-i choke on either debconf interactions or package removals?
Why would this have an effect before any packages have been downloaded?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.27-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages blendsel depends on:
ii  apt                     3.0.1
ii  blendsel-data           0.8
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.91
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.07-7+b1

blendsel recommends no packages.

blendsel suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded