I can confirm that this behavior persists in opensmtpd 7.3.0p2-1, the
current sid version.
The package scripts take settings from the (possibly absent)
/etc/mailname and /etc/aliases files, and push those into debconf,
instead of the other way around. This breaks pre-seeding, and makes the
package's debconf support little better than using an editor on those
files directly.
You can kinda-sorta pre-seed by doing
# echo my.mail.name >/etc/mailname
# echo "root: my.r...@addr.com" >/etc/aliases
and then installing the package, but then you don't get the more
elaborate aliases file that is generated by the install scripts.
(The configuration scripts are in need of an overhaul, generally. The
absence of settings for a smarthost and additional mail-names is
conspicuous. Ideally, opensmtpd would have a debconf implementation
similar to that of postfix or exim4-config.)
--Daniel
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Daniel Richard G. || sk...@iskunk.org
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