On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 08:59:23PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Followup-For: Bug #608648 > > This change causes regressions, e.g. #867256. I might find more until > sid has seen a complete recheck in piuparts. > > That change sounds sensible and should not be reverted, just the > affected packages should be fixed.
I think the right answer is actually a partial revert. The change to Debconf::ConfModule was overkill on my part: it isn't necessary to fix the original bug, and it causes this kind of problem. I have an alternative implementation which only affects dpkg-reconfigure, so won't break ordinary maintainer scripts like this; I'm just testing it a bit before upload. That said, using absolute paths (as has been done though not yet uploaded for #867256, I see) when calling ucf still seems like a good idea for robustness. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
