[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#289165: Second question may actually be required

[Peter Samuelson]

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[Jonas Smedegaard]
> I noticed the removal of "remember the restart setting?" in changelog
> entry of 1.19.6-20, and it sounds similar to my recently adding a
> silly question to ipopd and uw-imapd: debconf is *not* a registry (as
> it states itself in its documentation) so be careful to respect
> actual configuration files over debconf answers.

The question relates to package installation, not normal operation.
For everything affecting normal operation (that is, everything
contained in /etc/gpm.conf), /etc/gpm.conf *does* override the debconf
database.  "Whether to restart gpm at upgrade time, in those rare cases
where this *could* cause a problem" does not appear in gpm.conf, and in
my view, shouldn't - it's an entirely appropriate thing for debconf to
be authoritative about.

Peter

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