On 2018-03-22 10:57 +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> On 21/03/2018 20:17, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> The problem is that debconf uses whiptail as its default frontend, but
>> does _not_ depend on it, so that it does not need to be installed in
>> build chroots which normally use the "noninteractive" debconf frontend.
>>
>> For a usable debconf, you really need whiptail or dialog (or one of the
>> graphical frontends, but those have many additional dependencies and
>> require X). See debconf(7).
> Interesting corner case. Wouldn't setting Recommends: whiptail | dialog
> on debconf fix this ?
Unfortunately it would not. Being part of the base system, debconf is
installed by debootstrap, and debootstrap's simplistic resolver
completely ignores Recommends.
Cheers,
Sven
