On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:56:28 +0000, Mark Hindley wrote: > However, in trying to understand more fully when postinst is called with > configure and reconfigure arguments, it appears that reconfigure is not > currently supported at all. It is not mentioned in the Policy and > ancient bug #215549 was closed as wontfix. So although reconfigure is in > the postinst skeleton the distinction is not observed. The only possible > way to distinguish is using the hack that DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE=1 is set > in the postinst environment. See debconf-devel(7). > > Or am I missing something?
I don't actually know much about debconf, sorry. I just followed what debhelper is doing, but it appears you need to add that check with DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE, otherwise a dpkg-reconfigure will always be a NOP (because defaults and defaults-disabled become NOPs when the service is already enabled or disabled). Saludos
