[Debconf-devel] Bug#635032: debconf: question data loss in some frontends (teletype, readline, at least)

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, gregor herrmann wrote:

> I'm using the readline interface of debconf everywhere, and I always
> install libterm-readline-gnu-perl to get debconf show the old values.

Ah, that’s a good data point to know. I will add that to
my metapackage.

> Unfortunately libterm-readline-gnu-perl is only a Suggests, maybe
> moving it to Recommends would be a good idea?

No idea on that, it’d probably be a good signal, but not
help with the other frontends and not be good enough of
a fix to be a candidate for the release. Plus, I recommend
Debian users to disable automatic installation of Recommends
(though I look at them when they’re shown by apt).

> (No idea about the other frontends.)

For the Cluster-SSH use case, the Readline frontend is the
fallback used, so this mail of yours actually helps, which
is not what can be said about others…

Thanks a lot!

bye,
//mirabilos
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