Re: apt-utils

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Whenever I install a new system, debconf (or rather, the minimal version on
> the install disks) throws up a curses-based menu asking what mode I want it
> to run in, then what level of messages to display.  I consistently answer
> text/medium.  It then preconfigures other packages, unpacks everything, and
> starts the actual configuration phase.  At this time, I am again asked what
> mode I want debconf to run in and what message level to display.

I never saw this happen in all my testing of stable (hundreds of fresh
installs). Nobody else has ever reported this either, nor have I seen
this happen in the perhaps 10 installs of stable I have witnessed other
people do.

So believe it or not, it does work for most of us. If you can get a log of
that with DEBCONF_DEBUG set, I would of course like to see it.

> I just tried purging and reinstalling ssh on two machines.  The one tracking
> testing worked properly, only asking if I wanted it SUID and whether to run
> sshd once.  The one tracking stable asked 3(!) times.  That version of apt
> doesn't seem to like nonnumeric values for DEBCONF_DEBUG, so I tried setting
> it to 100 instead, which seems to have worked.

Well, this is ssh's breakage, seemingly limited to stable:

> debconf: <-- FSET ssh/upgrade_to_openssh isdefault false

Thus forcing debconf to redisplay the question each time.


Any others? (And don't cite console-data, or cvs. Both have historically
had the same breakage in stable.)

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see shy jo