Bug#410704: [Debconf-devel] Bug#410704: dpkg-reconfigure debconf doesn't reconfigure

[Joey Hess]

Bob Tanner wrote:
> According the the manpage for dpkg-reconfigure:
> 
> OPTIONS
>        -ftype, --frontend=type
>            Select the frontend to use. The default frontend can be permanently
>            changed by:
> 
>             dpkg-reconfigure debconf
> 
>            Note that if you normally have debconf set to use the noninterac-
>            tive frontend, dpkg-reconfigure will use the dialog frontend
>            instead, so you actually get to reconfigure the package.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be the default behavior.

Works fine here. It's probably something else preventing the questions
from being seen. Perhaps you have a hardcoded priorty set in
/etc/debconf.conf?

-- 
see shy jo
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