Bas Wijnen wrote: > As I wrote, the only thing you need is to search for any package using a > config script. Searching for db_input path:\.config$ gives for example > cyrus-sasl2 and bind9 on the first page. No ,any package using a config script does not use debconf in a buggy fashion. Sheesh. Are you trying to be intentionallhy abtruse and annoying? > Bind9's config script has the simplicity that I like (apart from the > extra db_go calls). A simple package should be able to have a simple > config script like that. > > But it is wrong, because it ignores current values in the configuration > file. Its postinst file will happily overwrite values in there with the > debconf answers, which may well come from the cache (especially since > they're low priority). No, it will not. Its postinst avoids this in an excessively complicated and suboptimal way, but it does avoid it. Threadkilled. -- see shy jo
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