On Tue, Oct 06, 2026 at 11:06:40PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
I think the chown comes from dbconfig-common. Isn't the problem here that you're using the noninteractive frontend and don't have appropriate preseeding for dbconfig-common's questions?
Yes, definitely.
Off the top of my head I'm not sure exactly what the preseeding would need to be, but it probably involves at least debusine-server/remote/host. I'd start by installing debusine-server in a throwaway test environment with an interactive debconf frontend and see what questions you need to answer to get it to select a remote database.
Yeah, that was where I wound up before filing this bug report -- I filed it because I couldn't think of another situation where no recommends results in a package being /uninstallable/ (rather than merely broken)
with the package defaults.That being said, i'm also totally sympathetic to no-recommends and noninteractive being DOA -- I would not reopen this bug if you think that's the case and closed it :)
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