On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:12:28PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:44:58PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:27:47PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > > Recently cdebconf behavior has been changed to not display already seen
> > > questions, in order to help non-interactive installations.
> > > But this change makes back up quite useless, because one cannot go
> > > back and forth without trouble, some questions are skipped.
> > > So I would like to revert this change, is it okay?
> > 
> > No, please don't revert.
> > 
> > cdebconf (like debconf) is supposed to defer writing of all "seen" data until
> > the end of the script, to fix this very issue. If this does not work, it is 
> > indeed a bug, but the "do not display already seen questions" behaviour is
> > definitely not. :-)
> 
> You are right, I did not remember this point.  There seems to be a bug
> here, will try to fix it.

I initially posted this message because choose-mirror does not handle
goback right.  After more investigations, cdebconf seems to work just
fine, so I will now look into choose-mirror.  Sorry for the noise.

Denis


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