[Popcon-developers] Bug#867056: popularity-contest: debconf prompt on upgrade to stretch

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 08:41:06PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Control: severity -1 minor
> 
> On Mon, Jul  3, 2017 at 20:03:41 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 
> > Upon upgrading hosts from jessie to stretch I get the popcon prompt
> > about whether to participate.  That should only be shown on initial
> > install, not for subsequent upgrades.
> > 
> Apparently this is due to us creating /etc/popularity-contest.conf
> through puppet, possibly before the package is installed, so the prompt
> is (from debconf's perspective) unseen.

Why not use debconf preseeding as recommended and let popcon postinst
generate /etc/popularity-contest.conf ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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