[Popcon-developers] Bug#867056: popularity-contest: debconf prompt on upgrade to stretch

[jcristau@debian.org (Julien Cristau)]

Control: severity -1 minor

On Mon, Jul  3, 2017 at 20:03:41 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:

> Upon upgrading hosts from jessie to stretch I get the popcon prompt
> about whether to participate.  That should only be shown on initial
> install, not for subsequent upgrades.
> 
Apparently this is due to us creating /etc/popularity-contest.conf
through puppet, possibly before the package is installed, so the prompt
is (from debconf's perspective) unseen.

Cheers,
Julien