Control: tag -1 patch On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 10:17 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 01:04:06AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > It appears that using debconf in a preinst or postinst script causes > > debconf templates to be loaded automagically. However, since version > > 4.4.1-1~exp1 the linux-image-* packages only use debconf in the prerm > > script. In the case where the script asks a question, debconf does > > not find the template and the prerm script fails. > > > > The manual page for debconf-loadtemplate says it should never be used > > from maintainer scripts, so I don't see how we're supposed to make > > this work. > Can you see if this patch works? (If you're applying this directly to > /usr/share/debconf/frontend, note that comments are stripped on > installation, but it should be reasonably obvious what to do.)
Yes, this works for me. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson
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