Bug#819845: [Debconf-devel] Bug#819845: mention how to reconfigure the items shown by debconf-show
On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 10:09:04AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Also debconf-show should perhaps indicate which items will cause
> a subsequent run of dpkg-reconfigure to ask questions, vs. which items
> are inaccessible via dpkg-reconfigure.
It can't. debconf fundamentally doesn't have this information. (Except
to the extent of knowing which questions have already been asked in the
past, which debconf-show already tells you via the '*' prefix.)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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