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Bug#704089: tzdata config script prevents non-interactive (re)configuration



On 2019-01-15 12:40, Adam Bolte wrote:
> Package: tzdata
> Version: 2018i-0+deb9u1
> Followup-For: Bug #704089
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> This is still a problem 4 years later, and I unexpectedly found myself
> spending time to track it down when doing configuration
> management. Can we please get the above patch applied *before* the
> Buster soft-freeze on 2019-02-12 (just over a month away)?

I don't think the patch is correct. Debconf is not a registry, the
canonical location for the configuration is the configuration files, not
the debconf database. Quoting debconf-devel(7):

"The issue to watch out for here is that debconf is not intended to be,
and must not be used as a registry."

I think it also applies when DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE is set.

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