On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:44:41PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> rc wrote:
> > I've inspected the source and found a completely unconditional:
> > 35 if (lc Debconf::Config->frontend eq 'noninteractive') {
> > 36 Debconf::Config->frontend('dialog');
> > 37 }
>
> The reason this is done is so users who have the default debconf
> frontend set to noninteractive can use dpkg-reconfigure and have it do
> something useful. See bug #57614.
>
> I don't see the use of running dpkg-reconfigure with the noninteractive
> frontend.
Maybe they're trying to re-run the postinst script.
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