Bug#819845: [Debconf-devel] Bug#819845: mention how to reconfigure the items shown by debconf-show
>>>>> "CW" == Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
>> User sees
>>
>> If you just want to see the current configuration of a package, see
>> debconf-show(1) instead.
...
>> So, kindly on the dpkg-reconfigure man page, mention how to reconfigure
>> [all!] the items shown by debconf-show! Thank you.
CW> It is not necessarily appropriate to be able to reconfigure every item
CW> shown by debconf-show, because some of them may be used for internal
CW> state tracking by the package's maintainer scripts, or depend on the
CW> current situation at the time when the maintainer scripts are run;
OK then please mention that on man dpkg-reconfigure.
And also mention that on man dpkg-reconfigure that it has no secret
--double-force option to get a way to tinker with all the items shown
with debconf-show even if inappropriate, like you said:
CW> No, sorry. There is no such general mechanism beyond simply using
CW> dpkg-reconfigure, whose defaults generally arrange to get a package to
CW> re-show all of its questions; it's up to the package to implement
CW> reconfiguration appropriately. Things do generally work fine if debconf
CW> configuration is implemented in the way recommended in the debconf
CW> documentation.
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