Re: Debconf broken?!

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Jon Eisenstein wrote:
> pn  cdebconf       <none>         (no description available)

> > file /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> 
> /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure:    ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
> version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

Well that is not from debconf.

> /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: Bourne shell script text executable

I wonder if this is.. do you get different values from these commands?

joey@kite:/sbin>md5sum /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
eea80b71cf6f0bd01413061a9b5198ab  /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
joey@kite:/sbin>md5sum /usr/share/debconf/frontend  
122ca4e05ba2b562e9e9b95f7689e0a7  /usr/share/debconf/frontend

> > DEBCONF_DEBUG='.*' dpkg --configure -a
> Setting up debconf (0.5.49) ...
> GET debconf/preconfig

And that is not debconf running, it _always_ outputs something in debug
more.

Randolph, looks like cdebconf does not clean up after itself when
purged.

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