Bug#305957: Postinstall script replaces configuration escape sequences with their expansions on upgrade

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:47:38PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> I've applied the fixed patch to SVN and added another one to make th
> whole thing work if /bin/sh is not bash.

Is there any reason why you didn't use the DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE envvar
as mentioned in the debconf-devel(7) man page, and resorted to this
rather ugly hack with the internal template?

Greetings
Marc

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