I tried these new configuration files today, but I had a lot of problems with them and didn't really get anywhere. I'll look again this weekend in hopes of being able to provide some useful feedback. Even with dpkg -P --force-depends xserver-xfree86, the get-edid part of the config script never seemed to get run. Also, several things that used to have defaults (I forget the exact questions, but they were keyboard questions whose answers were "xfree86", "pc104", and "us") didn't forcing me to actually enter something for those. When I got all the way through the questions, the configuration blew out because I didn't have an identifier for the monitor. When I restarted with low priority, I was prompted for the video card and monitor identifiers without defaults. In the past, those used to be automatically detected. (Well, at least the monitor was, but the lack of autodetection of the video card is probably a discover problem which has already been reported.)
Also, the templates file had fields _Description and _Choices. I clobbered the leading _ to get debconf to not complain and to actually display the text. Let me know if I should work more with these or whether there will be other files to try. By the way, I'm running 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 now. I most likely won't have time again before the weekend. Just wondering... how are you testing these scripts? I imagine this must be very difficult to test without a wide array of hardware. --Jay
