[Jonas Smedegaard] > I noticed the removal of "remember the restart setting?" in changelog > entry of 1.19.6-20, and it sounds similar to my recently adding a > silly question to ipopd and uw-imapd: debconf is *not* a registry (as > it states itself in its documentation) so be careful to respect > actual configuration files over debconf answers.
The question relates to package installation, not normal operation. For everything affecting normal operation (that is, everything contained in /etc/gpm.conf), /etc/gpm.conf *does* override the debconf database. "Whether to restart gpm at upgrade time, in those rare cases where this *could* cause a problem" does not appear in gpm.conf, and in my view, shouldn't - it's an entirely appropriate thing for debconf to be authoritative about. Peter
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