Zed Pobre wrote: > The package will be configured correctly if after installing I do > dpkg-reconfigure <package>, but for some reason, debconf isn't being > invoked on a dpkg -i. What's the most likely thing I missed?
You're not loading any of the debconf libraries in your postinst. Due to the exceedingly ugly hack debconf uses to get its config script to run, that is currently required. (Luckily, I have ideas about how dpkg can eventually be extended to do away with the nastiness in the future.) -- see shy jo
