Hi, On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 06:30 +0000, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > severity 411585 important > tag 411585 +confirmed > thanks > > I am marking this bug as important and confirmed for various reasons. I > am finding it with purge rather than unregister. However it seems likely > that that purge is defined in terms of unregister, or at least that they > share code. Unregister is realtively obscure whilst purge is always used. > > The debconf-devel(7) man page is fairly clear: "It [purge] removes all > of your package's questions from the debconf's database". I have found > that this works under debconf but not cdebconf. Note however that if you > restrict yourself to debconf-show it appears to work. You have to either > view the cache file or reinstall a purged package to see if it failed > or worked. > > > This difference in behaviour from the documentation and the debconf > implementation, is enough for me to think that this bug eport should > actually be severe, but may be oters woud disagree.
Should I assume that you're actually using cdebconf on a system, and not only as part of the installer ? It's only been possible to do so for a very short time, and it's not the only feature missing to make it a full replacement for debconf, yet. I'm adding it to my todo list, though. Thanks again, Regis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1323784952.2308.9.ca...@x200s.malip.net
