[Popcon-developers] Bug#228535: popularity-contest: debconf fails to enable participation
Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.7
Severity: important
After installing popularity-contest, the default participation value was
off (I have it set to only ask high priority questions). Debconf
prompted me by email to run:
dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest
to turn popularity-contest on or off. I ran dpkg-reconfigure, and when
asked if I wanted to participate, I responded "Yes". Even after doing
so, /etc/popularity-contest.conf still contained the following:
# PARTICIPATE can be one of "yes" or "no". If you don't want to
# participate in the contest, say "no" and we won't send messages.
#
# If this option is missing, the default is "no".
#
PARTICIPATE=no
As far as I can tell the only way I can (currently) turn popularity
contest on is by manually editing this file.
Charles
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux frogcircus.org 2.4.23-memlock+brkpatch+mremap-6um #6 Mon Jan 5 21:36:39 GMT 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii debconf 1.3.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.18 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.30-3 Lightweight version of the Exim (v
ii perl 5.8.2-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
* popularity-contest/intro:
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