On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:39:15AM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > The debconf database *is* in /var/cache so I don't know how anything > can be expected to work after it's wiped. But according to the FHS > what Franz is doing is completely allowable... > > CCing the Debconf developers in case they can shed any light on this.
Sounds like the long-known https://bugs.debian.org/247134. It probably needs to be dealt with at some point, but oh goodness the anticipated migration pain ... -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]