Bug#410224: give the user the ability to answer conffile prompts during installation

[peter green]

package:debian-installer
severity:wishlist

conffile prompts should not happen during installation (unless of course the 
admin uses a vt to edit files manually), but sometimes they do due to bugs in 
packages or other issues. 

just freezing with the conffile prompt on another vt and worse no way to answer 
it is not good behaviour when they do.

Bug#410224: give the user the ability to answer conffile prompts during installation

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting peter green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > As you mention yourself, the situation you described should *not*
> > happen during a regular install. It can happen if a given package
> > modifies conffiles from another package and does not do it The Right
> > Way (see Policy 10.7.4).
> presumablly this doesn't just affect conffiles but any prompting that doesn't 
> go through debconf (or is not using debconf also forbidden?).


The answer is yes, in my opinion. Or, more presumably, *any* package
should be installable in a non-interactive manner.




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