[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#864875: debconf: frontend exits with status 10 after last upgrade when /var/cache is tmpfs

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:08:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 08:58:29PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > I'm a bit surprised by #247134. Doesn't the "debconf is not a registry"
> > mantra imply that all data in /var/cache/debconf should be possible to
> > regenerate from config files in /etc/ and the like?
> 
> Well, that's the noble intent, but (even aside from debconf not quite
> recreating the bits it needs for itself) I'm not aware that anyone tests
> it and it's probably never been true in reality.

Heh, I guess I've just revealed how gullible I really am.
Thanks for the reality check.
-- 
Niko