[Debconf-devel] Success in using cdebconf alone to bootstrap VMs

[Gioele Barabucci]

Dear debconf and cdebconf maintainers,

you probably have seen the bugs reports [1] and the MRs [2,3] that I 
recently opened related to the creation and the use of `debconf-common`.

With these changes [4,5,6] applied (and a few unrelated changes) I have 
been able to mmdebootstrap a number of VMs in which classic debconf is 
not used at all, neither at installation time nor afterward.

I'm confident that a debconf-free unstable for base systems could be 
achieved before the freeze with little effort.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/1018261
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/merge_requests/11
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/-/merge_requests/17
[4] https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/debconf/-/commits/debconf-common-pkg
[5] https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/cdebconf/-/commits/depend-debconf-common
[6] https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/cdebconf/-/commits/independence

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Gioele Barabucci