[Pkg-xmpp-devel] Bug#931647: Acknowledgement (movim deb package does not save URL edits during installation; later dpkg-reconfigure works OK)

[Federico Grau]

Exploring this issue further, it's looking like a possible race condition.


If one downloads the movim debian package, and installs it with "dpkg -i", the
user is prompted for their debconf selections, and then the file
(/etc/default/movim) is pushed out incorporating user choices -- the ideal
situation.  

However, if one installs movim using "apt-get install", the configuration file
gets pushed out, then the user is prompted for their selections, which then
get lost (as default values are read in from the configuration file pushed
out).  One can observe this behaviour if they keep a copy of
/etc/default/movim (possibly seeded with an alternate value) and put it in
place before installing movim.


One potential fix might be to alter "debian/movim.config" to check debconf if
the user has set a debconf value for movim/public_url , rather than just
reading a value from the configuration file (which may be the default one
pushed out by the package).  There may be a better way to work around this
potential race condition that I'm not familiar with.

regards,
donfede


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