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Package: debconf
Version: 1.4.67
Severity: minor
Hey,
I was debugging a package of mine just now and spent quite some time on a
stupid problem, caused by debconf remembering answers for packages that are
purged.
The documentation of debconf-show suggests that it lists all the information
in the debconf database for a given package. Yet, when the package is not
installed, but answers for the package are still present in the database, they
are not displayed by debconf-show.
So, this is either a code bug: These values should be shown, even if the
package is no longer installed (though I am not sure one can link those values
to the actual package anymore?).
Or, this is a documentation bug: man debconf-show shoul note that though
answers for purged packages might be present, it is not listed. This would
have saved me quite some time ;-)
Gr.
Matthijs
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii debconf-i18n 1.4.67 full internationalization support
ii perl-base 5.8.7-10 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii apt-utils 0.6.43.1 APT utility programs
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Hey Joey,
> One possible explanation for the behavior you observed would be a shared
> debconf question that is owned by multiple packages; in this case
> purging one package and asking debconf-show to display its debconf
> values would not display the values, though they are still present in the
> database, since they would no longer be registered as belonging to the
> purged package.
Right, turns out it was this after all. I couldn't find the debconf database
files at first, so I decided to stick with using debconf-show. Now, I found
config.dat and it turns out the question was linked to the package "unknown".
Apparently I screwed up something with my first few debconf steps, creating
this link... Removing this link makes debconf behave as I initially expected.
Sorry for the trouble, turns out there is no bug after all...
Thanks,
Matthijs
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