Bug#761034: debconf-set-selections is ignored

2014-09-11 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 09/10/14 21:49, Joey Hess wrote: It's up to individual packages how they deal with debconf settings. In general, the current configuration of the system is preferred over what is in the debconf cache when reconfiguring a package. It's often considered a bug if a package uses some,

Bug#761034: debconf-set-selections is ignored

2014-09-10 Thread Harald Dunkel
Package: debconf Version: 1.5.49 Looking at the output of debconf-get-selections and the preset values shown by dpkg-reconfigure it seems to me that sometimes they do not match. Example: If I change the database for mdadm using echo -e mdadm\tmdadm/mail_to\tstring\tmonitor...@example.com |

Bug#761034: debconf-set-selections is ignored

2014-09-10 Thread Joey Hess
Harald Dunkel wrote: Looking at the output of debconf-get-selections and the preset values shown by dpkg-reconfigure it seems to me that sometimes they do not match. Example: If I change the database for mdadm using echo -e mdadm\tmdadm/mail_to\tstring\tmonitor...@example.com |