Hello, I am experiencing strange things with debconf and the package I'm working on, netenv.
When I do # apt-get --purge remove netenv [...] then debconf-show netenv says nothing, i.e. all the debconf items should be purged from the database. However, at # DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer dpkg -i ~frank/src/Packages/netenv_0.93-1_i386.deb no questions get asked unless I preceed the line with DEBCONF_SHOWOLD=yes, and the debugging messages are like this: debconf (developer): <-- INPUT critical netenv/info_configure0 debconf (developer): --> 30 question skipped The same occurs if, after the purge, I call the postinst script manually instead installing the package. The usual way to find out how such behavior arises would be to minimize the config and postinst scripts until the error disappears. However, I am not sure that I will find the solution this way. In fact, I encountered the problem for the first time some days ago, and I didn't find a solution by minimizing. Then I just decided to rename the template items, which "cured" the problem. And now it is back. Is it possible that the problem comes from my testing of the scripts? Since the config script got fairly complex, I have executed them manually a couple of times. In this case always with DEBCONF_SHOWOLD=yes, and sometimes the scripts weren't executed properly to the end because there was some syntax error. BTW the scripts are /bin/sh. Can somebody help me? TIA, Frank -- Frank K�ster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
