On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 06:20:25PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 03:48:10PM -0500, Davidson wrote: > > I inspected ./etc/newt/palette.dark, > > > > # mkdir /etc/newt/ > > > > copied ./etc/newt/palette.dark to /etc/newt/, changed its owner from > > the downloading user to root:root, checked that its permissions were > > sane > > > > and then tested with > > > > # NEWT_COLORS_FILE=/etc/newt/palette.dark dpkg-reconfigure locales > > > > which looked satisfactory to me. > > > > So I then did > > > > # ln -Tv /etc/newt/palette.dark /etc/newt/palette > > > > and verified that this had the desired effect with > > > > # dpkg-reconfigure locales > > > > And it did. I now have the dark theme by default. > > Strangely, on my Debian 13 hosts this isn't taking effect unless I set > NEWT_COLORS_FILE=/etc/newt/palette. On Debian 12 and below, just putting > the file at /etc/newt/palette seems to be enough. > > I haven't yet worked out if this is some difference in how my Debian 13 > hosts are configured, or a bug.
Poking at the sources, it seems to be a configure-time option, so perhaps there's some change in debian/rules or some such? Cheers -- t
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