Hi folks, Life is a bit hectic at the moment, but I'm still working on getting cdebconf forward.
Attached is a patch that would help a bit with the transition, as it makes dpkg-reconfigure and dpkg-preconfigure call their cdebconf version if DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF is set. Applying the patch should be harmless unless users actually want to test using cdebconf instead of the perl version, which I wouldn't recommend, as it require a fair amount of manual intervention at the moment. More on that in another email. Regis
>From 1bffc77b984319b26c12511c60719e6c66037246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Regis Boudin <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:15:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] call cdebconf versions if the env variable is set --- dpkg-preconfigure | 4 ++++ dpkg-reconfigure | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/dpkg-preconfigure b/dpkg-preconfigure index 02f3087..a996fc0 100755 --- a/dpkg-preconfigure +++ b/dpkg-preconfigure @@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ BEGIN { } } +if (exists $ENV{DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF} and $ENV{DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF} ne '') { + exec "/usr/lib/cdebconf/dpkg-preconfigure", @ARGV; +} + Debconf::Db->load; my $apt=0; diff --git a/dpkg-reconfigure b/dpkg-reconfigure index 79dea84..e38df69 100755 --- a/dpkg-reconfigure +++ b/dpkg-reconfigure @@ -81,6 +81,10 @@ L<debconf(7)> =cut +if (exists $ENV{DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF} and $ENV{DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF} ne '') { + exec "/usr/lib/cdebconf/dpkg-reconfigure", @ARGV; +} + my $infodir="/var/lib/dpkg/info"; use strict; -- 1.7.6
