"dpkg-reconfigure debconf" is the answer. (Select readline frontend.) I would like to see this information on every poorly designed dialog produced by debconf, with ability to switch to readline frontend in runtime.
P.S. I was also unpleasantly surprised in the past by ncurses dialogs that started to appear in more and more packages, breaking consistent experience of conffile conflicts resolution. The worst thing is that you cannot even always resort to pure shell from those dialogs due to some weird xterm-related errors hidden by re-appearing dialog. I.e. you cannot move forward in complex cases when you really need to merge, and there is no graceful abort option. The problem is sometimes (often?) exaggerated by illogical impossible-to-guess names and locations of new conffiles, (provided by ucf?). Absolute usability failure. -- ...Bye..Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
