On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 00:36:38 +0200 Robert Luberda <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> 5. If he or she wants to correct the mistake, runs the dpkg-reonfigure
> command again, and selects exactly the same options, what makes
> dpkg-reconfigure to create exactly the same new config file as
previously.
> Obviously the same ucf command will be called, but this time
> *ucf will happily exit without prompting the user* for anything - and
this
> is the bug this report is about.
>
This is a quite annoying issue as some user might loose the changes they
are trying to apply to a configuration file that is generated via debconf.
I see that when calling dpkg-reconfigure, the DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE=1
environment variable is set.
Couldn't this be used to detect that situation?
