> As for the debconf change, that was on the
> recommendation of Steve, so I assume that's
> fine. Maybe not the recommended way but
> certainly not the worst way of doing it either :)


I worry that doing this violates the principle that debconf is not a registry.  
Debconf is a way for the administrator to make her preferences known and that 
is all.  To change the answer to a debconf question to record the fact that a 
maintainer script has run is to use debconf as a record of system state.

In Debian there are already a couple of ways of preventing the resolvconf 
package from replacing /etc/resolv.conf with a symlink on upgrade.
* Remove the resolvconf package
* Manually change the answer to the linkify-resolvconf question, using 
dpkg-reconfigure
* Make the file immutable

(The last case is currently treated as an error if the answer to
linkify-resolvconf is true, but we could decide to treat it as a valid
condition instead.)

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