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

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Jul  3, 2017 at 20:55:57 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:

> 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 ?
> 
preseeding is a terrible way to manage configurations.

Cheers,
Julien