Dave Sherohman wrote: > The two cases that spring to mind of apt-utils consistently reasking > questions are ssh and apt-utils itself. (Although apt-utils is at least > decent enough to remember, when making the second pass through, that I'd > told it to use the text interface the first time around.)
I don't know what you're talking about: apt-utils does not use debconf. apt-get install debconf-utils; echo get debconf/showold | debconf-communicate If that outputs "true", then you have configured debconf to redisplay already seen questions. If not, I would dearly like the see a log of a package, any package, displaying the same question both in preconfiguration and at install time, with DEBCONF_DEBUG='.*' set and exported in the environment. -- see shy jo
