Package: ucf
Version: 3.0025
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/ucf

[More] is displayed at the end of each page requring enter to be
pressed.  This is dangerous because you can't just hold down return to
get to the end of a very long diff because that starts answering who
knows what questions that were coming up.  This makes the diff output
almost as unusable as putting it in a text dialog where you can't copy
and paste because of the line wraps and side characters.  The problem
is the $PAGER environment variable is ignored and should not be,

I have libterm-readline-gnu-perl installed and the following in
/var/cache/debconf/config.dat

Name: debconf/frontend
Template: debconf/frontend
Value: Readline
Owners: debconf, debconf-tiny
Flags: seen

I specifically ran this example after being ignored by the upgrade.
/usr/bin/ucf --three-way /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf 
/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf.dpkg-dist

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ucf depends on:
ii  coreutils                     8.5-1      GNU core utilities
ii  debconf                       1.5.35     Debian configuration management sy

ucf recommends no packages.

ucf suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* ucf/show_diff:
  ucf/changeprompt_threeway: keep_current
  ucf/title:
* ucf/changeprompt: keep_current
  ucf/conflicts_found:



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