On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:13:53AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:11:17AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > Udpkg (and maybe other tools?) must set debconf/showold (or > > DEBCONF_SHOWOLD) to true when reconfiguring packages, and when > > this is done, cdebconf can safely set debconf/showold to false > > by default. > > Umm, main-menu definitely did this before;
Main-menu calls 'udpkg --configure --force-configure' to force maintainers scripts to be run, but that's all. Either main-menu or udpkg must tell cdebconf to display seen questions. > has somebody broken it? > > In any case, it's simply wrong to set a broken default in cdebconf > just because other tools are broken, especially when there's no sane > workaround -- automated installations with the current cdebconf just > won't work... Automated installations can set debconf/showold to false. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]