>>>>> "CW" == Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> writes:
>> User sees >> >> If you just want to see the current configuration of a package, see >> debconf-show(1) instead. ... >> So, kindly on the dpkg-reconfigure man page, mention how to reconfigure >> [all!] the items shown by debconf-show! Thank you. CW> It is not necessarily appropriate to be able to reconfigure every item CW> shown by debconf-show, because some of them may be used for internal CW> state tracking by the package's maintainer scripts, or depend on the CW> current situation at the time when the maintainer scripts are run; OK then please mention that on man dpkg-reconfigure. And also mention that on man dpkg-reconfigure that it has no secret --double-force option to get a way to tinker with all the items shown with debconf-show even if inappropriate, like you said: CW> No, sorry. There is no such general mechanism beyond simply using CW> dpkg-reconfigure, whose defaults generally arrange to get a package to CW> re-show all of its questions; it's up to the package to implement CW> reconfiguration appropriately. Things do generally work fine if debconf CW> configuration is implemented in the way recommended in the debconf CW> documentation.
