On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 08:33:37PM -0500, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > Package: dictionaries-common > Version: 1.23.17 > > I used debconf-set-selections to set the following: > > dictionaries-common > dictionaries-common/default-wordlist > select > english (Webster's Second International English wordlist) > > dictionaries-common > dictionaries-common/default-wordlist > seen > false > > (each clause represents one debconf input line, items separated by tabs) > > However, when the dictionaries-common package is installed, and I am > asked for the system default wordlist, the default "american (American > English)" option is selected instead of the "english" one specified to > debconf. This indicates that the pre-seeded debconf value is ignored by > the package.
Hi, thanks for the info. This seems another incarnation of "apt-utils must be installed before any package trusting it is going to be installed" to properly process config files at preconfigure stage. Note that a depends will not work here, at the preconfigure stage it will not yet be available. And when debconf stuff is processed from postinst it will be done in a package by package basis, thus ignoring preseeded value unless package providing it is processed the first. I should think about a way to delay things when apt-utils is not available at pre-configure stage or try to store pre-seeded things and try to reset them later. However, I do not expect this to be simple. Regards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
