Ahah! Joey Hess already committed a fix for this issue in Wheezy: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debconf/debconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=59a0a653cbe1b8f4cb63849847f47e4043ec7fdc But if Debian Edu needs this fixed in Squeeze, my previous patch would be the least obtrusive diff. (The code has changed quite extensively since then). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain steven@pyro.eu.org