[Debconf-devel] Bug#445286: Readline frontend does not display default / already configured value

[Vasilis Vasaitis]

retitle 445286 Readline frontend does not display default / already configured value
thanks

  When a package is installed/upgraded, or when the user is running
dpkg-reconfigure, with most (all?) other debconf frontends the default
value (or the value that was configured previously) is already
selected, so that the user can just press <enter> and accept that.
However, with the Readline frontend, the readline prompt is just
blank, forcing the user to remember/reenter the same values again and
again.

  It would therefore be great if the frontend "injected" the default
value into the readline prompt, so that the user can just press
<enter> and go for that.

  (The reason I'm "hijacking" this bug report instead of opening a new
one, is because as far as I can tell this is the heart of the problem
that the submitter was reporting, so I just wanted to emphasize the
core issue here instead of creating a duplicate report.)

Thanks,
Vasilis

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Vasilis Vasaitis
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