Bug#84255: Should print package name when preconfiguring

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

reassign 84255 debhelper
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Is it really so hard to figure out that apt-get != debhelper? Sigh.

Ben Harris wrote:
> At the moment, when preconfiguring packages, apt-get gives no
> indication of which package is being preconfigured.  This is a pain if
> I want to report a bug in the preconfiguration script, since it's hard
> to tell which package to report it against (especially if all the
> script does is to print a perl error message).  A "Configuring
> <package>..." message printed before configuring each package would
> help.

Export DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer and it will provide you with plenty
of debugging information. This is documented in several places,
including the debconf user's guide.

I might accept a patch to apt-extracttemplates to make it write out the
names of the packages as they are preconfigured.

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