On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:24:52 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Why does this issue still exist? I nearly broke an important > server right now because I had set the debconf priority to low > intermediately and just did a regular dist-upgrade and thus was > re-asked some questions, all good so far, but DUE TO THE USE OF > CLUSTER-SSH, I HAD A VERY SMALL TERMINAL, SO I DID NOT GET THE > DIALOG FRONTEND, leading to *DATA LOSS* IN DEBCONF.
I'm using the readline interface of debconf everywhere, and I always install libterm-readline-gnu-perl to get debconf show the old values. Unfortunately libterm-readline-gnu-perl is only a Suggests, maybe moving it to Recommends would be a good idea? (No idea about the other frontends.) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Relax
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