After some investigation, I've come to the conclusion that the issues are not with the empty strings in debconf and hence this report should be closed again. Rather, there are two separate issues for one of which I might file another report: * MySQL itself doesn't treat the empty string correctly for its database superuser password setting. * dbconfig-common by default doesn't save the administrative password and hence keeps on asking.
** Changed in: debconf (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Seeding not possible with empty strings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533736 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs