Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > The documentation of debconf-show suggests that it lists all the information > in the debconf database for a given package. Yet, when the package is not > installed, but answers for the package are still present in the database, they > are not displayed by debconf-show.
debconf-show is a simple program that dumps whatever in the debconf database that is listed as belonging to a package. It has no conception of whether a package is installed or not, it just dumps what's in the database. One possible explanation for the behavior you observed would be a shared debconf question that is owned by multiple packages; in this case purging one package and asking debconf-show to display its debconf values would not display the values, though they are still present in the database, since they would no longer be registered as belonging to the purged package. I strongly doubt there is a debconf bug here; if there is you will need to provide sufficient information to reproduce it. -- see shy jo
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