reassign 225667 mailman thanks This sounds like the well-known and much reported debconf bug, that needs to be worked around in all packages using both debconf and ucf. See my patch for foomatic-filters for my prefered workaound. -- Blars Blarson blarson@blars.org http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.