Matt Wilkins wrote:
> i was expecting to see mcw as the default value in the mail_to since
> that is what is in debconf's database.
It's not a database, it's a cache of answered questions. Settings in
config files rightly take precience over that, although the code that
handles config files is not
Package: debconf
Version: 1.4.70
a debconf-get-selections followed by a debconf-set-selections doesn't
appear to be honoured by dpkg-reconfigure.
$ dpkg-reconfigure mdadm
answer mcw for the mail_to
$ grep MAIL_TO /etc/default/mdadm
MAIL_TO="mcw"
$ grep -C3 mail_to /var/cache/debconf/con
2 matches
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