On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 20:55:57 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 08:41:06PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Control: severity -1 minor > > > > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 20:03:41 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > > Upon upgrading hosts from jessie to stretch I get the popcon prompt > > > about whether to participate. That should only be shown on initial > > > install, not for subsequent upgrades. > > > > > Apparently this is due to us creating /etc/popularity-contest.conf > > through puppet, possibly before the package is installed, so the prompt > > is (from debconf's perspective) unseen. > > Why not use debconf preseeding as recommended and let popcon postinst > generate /etc/popularity-contest.conf ? > preseeding is a terrible way to manage configurations.
Cheers, Julien
