I was able to confirm this now on a Jessie cloud server via "sudo dpkg- reconfigure postfix". This will trigger a debconf question. It seems the Debian postfix maintainers consider the question important enough and without a sane default to show this to the user, in line with the Debian Policy.
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-config-mgmt http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man7/debconf-devel.7.html (under "INPUT priority question") This looks like "by design" to me. ** Changed in: postfix (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed ** Changed in: postfix (Ubuntu) Assignee: Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/640415 Title: postfix during desktop dist-upgrade, presented with post-fix config window To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postfix/+bug/640415/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
