On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 04:17:27PM +0200, Henning Fehrmann wrote: > Hello Agustin, > > > Sorry, since this bugreport was filed against installation-reports I blindly > > assumed that you were installing from scratch instead of being an upgrade. > > Thank you for this hint. We intended to install the system from scratch. > In fact, the package "dictionaries-common" was also in the installation > list. Due to the presence of installed dictionaries-common package, > the later ispell installation was reacting like an update. > By removing the dictionaries-common package, the ispell installation > reacted properly without user interaction.
Thanks for the info, that is the expected behavior. dictionaries-common config code does some work to guess sane defaults after the *to be* installed (ispell dicts|wordlists). However, once installed, each new (ispell dict|wordlist) to be installed is considered to deserve a new question because is done after an 'ad hoc' action. I had in mind to relax a bit that condition in dictionaries-common, but not for first install if dictionaries-comon is already installed, but for later sane ones (there might be name changes that need action). However, there seems to be something broken in your system, or some accidental mistake in the process. If I purge ispell and all installed ispell dicts, and reinstall as (this should be equivalent to what you did) # DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install ispell ispell and iamerican are installed, but no debconf questions are prompted. However, if after purging the relevant packages I do # apt-get install ispell ispell and iamerican are installed and debconf question prompted as expected. I tested this only in current stable 'etch', but I would not expect differences in sid. I will try that when possible and let you know. So, I think this bug report can be closed. Thanks for your feedback. -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
