Bug#819845: [Debconf-devel] Bug#819845: mention how to reconfigure the items shown by debconf-show
On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 10:06:52AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> >>>>> "CW" == Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
No, I don't see any need to change the debconf documentation here.
dpkg-reconfigure(8) says that it will ask configuration questions, not
that it will ask every single thing mentioned in the output of
debconf-show(1).
> 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:
It also doesn't have a --make-me-a-sandwich option, but I'm not going to
spell out all the options it doesn't have. :-)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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