[Mark Brown] > You need to explicitly end Debconf processing in the postinst by > calling db_stop. debconf causes child processes to have an extra > file descriptor open and waits for these to be closed before exiting > and the daemon doesn't know it has this file open so doesn't close > it.
Is this the case for all postinst scripts? db_stop is not mentioned in my /usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/tutorial.html, which I use as my debconf reference.