Bug#391650: [Debconf-devel] Bug#391650: 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' not works

[Joey Hess]

Thanatermesis - Elive wrote:
> On the new version of debconf (to aparently now remembers the before
> frontend type selected, before just try's the better option if the
> actual fails), don't permit to dpkg-reconfigure debconf if your last
> selection is 'noninteractive', the manual way to solve this is
> 'dpkg-reconfigure -fdialog debconf', but of course not is the idea
> when you want just to configure this

I'm afraid that you're mistaken: debconf's behavior in frontend
selection has not changed recently, and moreover debconf has a special
exception coded into it to use the dialog frontend for dpkg-reconfigure
if it's configured to use the noninteractive frontend. (This has been
the case since 2005.)

-- 
see shy jo
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