[DRE-maint] Automating apt-get install of chef?

[Rich Morin]

I'm having trouble using 'apt-get install chef' in an automated fashion.  Partway
through the execution of this command, it puts up a "Package configuration" dialog
which wants to know the URL of the default server.

I drilled down to chef_13.8.7-3_all.deb > control.tar.xz > templates and found this
sort of thing:

    Type: string
    Description: URL of Chef server:
    ...

but I don't see any provision for pre-setting the URL.  Is there a way to pre-set this
to (say) localhost:4000?  More generally, where can I find information on handling these
sorts of configuration options in Debian packages?

-r