Re: debconf reconfiguration from postinst of another package

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Wouter Verhelst 

> You *could* have a script do db_set <something> to change the defaults 
> and then run the postinst script (through dpkg-reconfigure), but that 
> would run against the spirit of 10.7.4 IMO.

That won't help, since dpkg-reconfigure will run the config script that
should grab data from the configuration file.

I still believe what I suggested earlier, having a custom answer
database module in debconf would be the right solution here.

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