On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:08:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 08:58:29PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > I'm a bit surprised by #247134. Doesn't the "debconf is not a registry" > > mantra imply that all data in /var/cache/debconf should be possible to > > regenerate from config files in /etc/ and the like? > > Well, that's the noble intent, but (even aside from debconf not quite > recreating the bits it needs for itself) I'm not aware that anyone tests > it and it's probably never been true in reality. Heh, I guess I've just revealed how gullible I really am. Thanks for the reality check. -- Niko