Michael Bramer wrote: > How handle debconf this? (if some packages have a shared template > (like share/news-server) and the template are not equal in the whole > (like spelling errors)) Joey ? It uses the last template it sees. If you're upgrading 2 packages with shared but difering templates at the same time, dpkg-preconfigure loads them both in esentialy random (but probably alphabetic) order. -- see shy jo