Thanatermesis - Elive wrote: > On the new version of debconf (to aparently now remembers the before > frontend type selected, before just try's the better option if the > actual fails), don't permit to dpkg-reconfigure debconf if your last > selection is 'noninteractive', the manual way to solve this is > 'dpkg-reconfigure -fdialog debconf', but of course not is the idea > when you want just to configure this
I'm afraid that you're mistaken: debconf's behavior in frontend selection has not changed recently, and moreover debconf has a special exception coded into it to use the dialog frontend for dpkg-reconfigure if it's configured to use the noninteractive frontend. (This has been the case since 2005.) -- see shy jo
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