Bugs in package debconf -- Debian Bug report logs

#294032 [i| | ] [debconf] debconf: Cannot install/update packages via cfrun/cfengine2
Reported by: Bas van der Vlies <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:03:02 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version 1.4.30.11; Filed 19 years and 284 days ago; Modified 19 years and 283 days ago;
#309968 [i| | ] [debconf] debconf: KDE fronted resets apache-modconf settings
Reported by: Piotr Roszatycki <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 20:33:02 UTC; Severity: important; Found in versions 1.4.49, 1.4.30.13; Filed 19 years and 181 days ago; Modified 19 years and 157 days ago;
#443753 [i| | ] [debconf] /usr/share/debconf/frontend segfaults
Reported by: Ionut Ciocirlan <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:48:01 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version debconf/1.5.14; Filed 17 years and 55 days ago; Modified 16 years and 349 days ago;
#480015 [i| | ] [debconf] KDE frontend does not show package name
Reported by: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 15:30:11 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version debconf/1.5.21; Filed 16 years and 193 days ago; Modified 16 years and 193 days ago;
#495319 [i| | ] [debconf] debconf: uses first choice for select if old choice doesn't exist anymore
Reported by: Bas Wijnen <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:24:01 UTC; Severity: important; Filed 16 years and 93 days ago; Modified 15 years and 183 days ago;
#534180 [i| | ] [debconf] Cannot use variable in Default field for multiselect
Reported by: David Paleino <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:21:23 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version debconf/1.5.26; Filed 15 years and 148 days ago; Modified 14 years and 328 days ago;
#601763 [i| | ] [debconf] debconf: Debconf::ConfModule::communicate hangs on $_=<$r> || return $this->finish
Reported by: "v.nix.is" <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:21:05 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version debconf/1.5.36; Filed 14 years and 19 days ago; Modified 14 years and 19 days ago;
#604114 [i| |=] [debconf] debconf gets confused by "postinst triggered"
Reported by: Kurt Roeckx <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:15:01 UTC; Severity: important; Merged with 608674; Found in version debconf/1.5.36; Filed 13 years and 362 days ago; Modified 13 years and 318 days ago;
#655957 [i| | ] [debconf] shows unreadable questions
Reported by: Michael Tokarev <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:33:03 UTC; Severity: important; Filed 12 years and 306 days ago; Modified 8 years and 297 days ago;
#665901 [i| | ] [debconf] debconf: Hangs if programs try to use if after db_stop was called.
Reported by: Robert Luberda <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:00:05 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version debconf/1.5.42; Filed 12 years and 234 days ago; Modified 12 years and 234 days ago;
#699388 [i| | ] [debconf] frontend segfaults right after perl update
Reported by: Eduard Bloch <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:27:02 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version debconf/1.5.49; Filed 11 years and 289 days ago; Modified 11 years and 289 days ago;
#740378 [i| | ] [debconf] dpkg-reconfigure -a -u doesn't work anymore
Reported by: Klaus Ethgen <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:54:02 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version debconf/1.5.52; Filed 10 years and 260 days ago; Modified 10 years and 260 days ago;
#845563 [i| | ] [debconf] apt-get update which ends up in grub-probe loops near Stack.pm uninitialized value
Reported by: Graeme Vetterlein <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:03:01 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version debconf/1.5.56; Filed 7 years and 355 days ago; Modified 7 years and 354 days ago;
#954929 [i| |☣] [debconf] libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Please provide backport to stable
Reported by: Felix Lechner <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:51:01 UTC; Severity: important; Filed 4 years and 234 days ago; Modified 4 years and 233 days ago;

#174130 [n|+| ] [debconf] debconf: allow empty variable substitutions in Choices field
Reported by: Denis Barbier <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 22:48:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version 1.2.20; Filed 21 years and 330 days ago; Modified 21 years and 309 days ago;
#179865 [n|+| ] [debconf] dialog frontend does not have inter-block navigation controls, as readline frontend does
Reported by: Joey Hess <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 04:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version 1.2.22; Filed 21 years and 287 days ago; Modified 11 years and 161 days ago;
#189026 [n|+| ] [debconf] debconf protocol gobbles whitespace
Reported by: Denis Barbier <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:33:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version 1.2.34; Filed 21 years and 218 days ago; Modified 7 years and 184 days ago;
#357118 [n|+| ] [debconf] debconf: exposes passwords in debug messages
Reported by: Colin Watson <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:03:22 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version debconf/1.4.72; Filed 18 years and 247 days ago; Modified 18 years and 213 days ago;
#469354 [n|+| ] [debconf] debconf: dpkg-reconfigure should acquire dpkg lock
Reported by: Colin Watson <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:00:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version debconf/1.5.19; Filed 16 years and 257 days ago; Modified 16 years and 48 days ago;
#502308 [n|+| ] [debconf] debconf-set-selections does not handle superfluous whitespace
Reported by: Hendrik Jaeger <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:51:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in versions debconf/1.5.11etch2, debconf/1.5.22, debconf/1.5.23; Filed 16 years and 33 days ago; Modified 16 years and 32 days ago;
#723843 [n|+| ] [debconf] debconf: uninitialized value on "EOF" (^D)
Reported by: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:42:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version debconf/1.5.51; Filed 11 years and 57 days ago; Modified 1 year and 308 days ago;
#1018261 [n|+|☣] [debconf] confmodule should be distributed separately from debconf
Reported by: Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 07:00:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version debconf/1.5.79; Filed 2 years and 78 days ago; Modified 238 days ago;
#1061480 [n|+| ] [debconf] debconf should automatically be noninteractive if input is /dev/null
Reported by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 08:27:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version debconf/1.5.84; Filed 293 days ago;

#101800 [n| | ] [debconf] text frontend doesn't pause at end
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:34:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 23 years and 150 days ago; Modified 20 years and 61 days ago;
#169868 [n| |=] [debconf] debconf: Choices field may sometimes be sorted according to translated values
Reported by: Denis Barbier <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:18:23 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 251417; Found in version 1.0.32; Filed 21 years and 364 days ago; Modified 20 years and 170 days ago;
#175636 [n| | ] [debconf] configuration problem during installation
Reported by: Juhapekka Tolvanen <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 05:33:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.2.21; Filed 21 years and 316 days ago; Modified 21 years and 316 days ago;
#183361 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: v1.2.31 822.pm script errors during apt-get install
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:18:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.2.31; Filed 21 years and 260 days ago; Modified 20 years and 230 days ago;
#192889 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: Should not be possible to set non-choice as select value
Reported by: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 07:48:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.2.34; Filed 21 years and 192 days ago; Modified 16 years and 26 days ago;
#199722 [n| | ] [debconf] note should be named 'warning'
Reported by: Joe Drew <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:03:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.2.42; Filed 21 years and 139 days ago; Modified 21 years and 139 days ago;
#201703 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: Configure fails due to unitialized variable
Reported by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:18:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.3.4; Filed 21 years and 125 days ago; Modified 21 years and 118 days ago;
#218182 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf truncated config.dat
Reported by: Wookey <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 21 years and 20 days ago; Modified 20 years and 353 days ago;
#223039 [n| |=] [debconf] debconf: Default location of config.dat is not FHS compliant?
Reported by: Toni Timonen <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 07:18:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 247134, 681893; Found in versions debconf/1.4.25, 1.3.22, debconf/1.5.1, debconf/1.5.36.1; Filed 20 years and 348 days ago; Modified 3 years and 148 days ago;
#232296 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: encoding of English text is not specified
Reported by: Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:18:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 20 years and 281 days ago; Modified 20 years and 278 days ago;
#235444 [n| | ] [debconf] base-config loops over the same questions
Reported by: Konstantinos Margaritis <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:03:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 20 years and 263 days ago; Modified 20 years and 234 days ago;
#249351 [n| | ] [debconf] flashplugin-nonfree 6.0.81-2 installation error
Reported by: John Smith <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 20:48:08 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 20 years and 185 days ago; Modified 20 years and 185 days ago;
#250751 [n| | ] [debconf] GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_set_valist: construct property "sm-connect" for object `GnomeProgram' can't be set
Reported by: Thomas Hood <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 19:03:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: sarge; Found in version 1.4.25; Filed 20 years and 177 days ago; Modified 20 years and 156 days ago;
#260189 [n| | ] [debconf] Debconf complains about unitialized values
Reported by: Nicolas DEGAND <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:18:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.4.29; Filed 20 years and 122 days ago; Modified 20 years and 47 days ago;
#264021 [n| | ] [debconf] man page of dpkg-reconfigure needs to be clarify (--frontend option)
Reported by: Sébastien GALLET <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 20:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 20 years and 103 days ago; Modified 20 years and 103 days ago;
#265109 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: error message suggesting broken templates database
Reported by: Robert Ewald <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:03:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.4.30; Filed 20 years and 98 days ago; Modified 20 years and 98 days ago;
#265233 [n| | ] [debconf] ideas for improved newt ui
Reported by: "Benjamin A. Schmit" <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:48:08 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 20 years and 98 days ago; Modified 20 years and 91 days ago;
#265286 [n| | ] [debconf, cdebconf] Need a way for repeated choices in "select" questions
Reported by: Anton Zinoviev <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:33:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 20 years and 97 days ago; Modified 20 years and 97 days ago;
#269598 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf should have versioned dependancy to debconf-i18n
Reported by: Mantas Kriaučiūnas <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:48:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.3.20; Filed 20 years and 77 days ago; Modified 20 years and 77 days ago;
#270532 [n| | ] [debconf] upgrade of debconf breaks dialog interface
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:48:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 20 years and 71 days ago; Modified 20 years and 70 days ago;
#272587 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf gnome frontend needs scrollbar
Reported by: Martin Braure de Calignon <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:03:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in versions 1.4.36, 1.4.38; Filed 20 years and 58 days ago; Modified 20 years and 43 days ago;
#285172 [n| | ] [debconf] ssh: Mail problem during install, should depend on mail-transport-agent?
Reported by: Cyril Bouthors <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 07:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 19 years and 342 days ago; Modified 4 years and 102 days ago;
#292207 [n| | ] [debconf] mysql-server: problem installing the software
Reported by: George Papamichelakis <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 19 years and 296 days ago; Modified 19 years and 296 days ago;
#297540 [n| | ] [debconf] Error message: Can't call method "description"...
Reported by: "W. Borgert" <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:33:13 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 19 years and 262 days ago; Modified 19 years and 261 days ago;
#298398 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: dpkg-reconfigure doesn't reconfigure dependent packages
Reported by: Matthew Exon <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.4.46; Filed 19 years and 256 days ago; Modified 19 years and 256 days ago;
#312248 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf doesn't notice when child process segfaults
Reported by: Colin Watson <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:48:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.4.50; Filed 19 years and 164 days ago; Modified 19 years and 164 days ago;
#312251 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: METAGET doesn't report when field doesn't exist
Reported by: Colin Watson <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 18:18:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.4.50; Filed 19 years and 164 days ago; Modified 19 years and 164 days ago;
#319177 [n| | ] [debconf] some patchs
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:48:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 19 years and 121 days ago; Modified 19 years and 118 days ago;
#319458 [n| | ] [debconf] Db->save do not shutdown all drivers
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:03:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 19 years and 119 days ago; Modified 19 years and 119 days ago;
#320201 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: should fallback to teletype frontend if TERM does not have correct value
Reported by: Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:50:22 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.4.52; Filed 19 years and 113 days ago; Modified 19 years and 108 days ago;
#321290 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf-copydb spews lots of errors on templates files
Reported by: Colin Watson <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 18:18:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.4.55; Filed 19 years and 105 days ago; Modified 19 years and 105 days ago;
#337364 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: Separate stdout/stderr in maintainer scripts using debconf
Reported by: <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 04:48:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.4.30.13; Filed 19 years and 14 days ago; Modified 19 years and 9 days ago;
#368532 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf's debconf for priority level should be rephrased for newbies
Reported by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 20:48:14 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.1; Filed 18 years and 179 days ago; Modified 18 years and 179 days ago;
#376688 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
Reported by: Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:33:07 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.4.30.13; Filed 18 years and 137 days ago; Modified 18 years and 107 days ago;
#379474 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf-copydb: fails, "source does not exist"
Reported by: Eduard Bloch <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:18:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.2; Filed 18 years and 117 days ago; Modified 18 years and 102 days ago;
#387895 [n| | ] [debconf] SUBST command return message does not have proper format
Reported by: martin f krafft <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:34:19 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.4.30.13; Filed 18 years and 62 days ago; Modified 18 years and 62 days ago;
#399215 [n| | ] [debconf] libapache2-mod-php4: Emacs readline problem "What would you like to do about php.ini?"
Reported by: Jari Aalto <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:18:06 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 17 years and 364 days ago; Modified 17 years and 311 days ago;
#414440 [n| | ] [debconf] Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib ...
Reported by: Robert Millan <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:36:06 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.11; Filed 17 years and 251 days ago; Modified 17 years and 251 days ago;
#422473 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf takes a long time when displaying large notes
Reported by: Michal Politowski <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 10:21:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 17 years and 196 days ago; Modified 17 years and 193 days ago;
#427062 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: dpkg-reconfigure: should set package to "failed-config" if postinst fails
Reported by: Frank Küster <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.11; Filed 17 years and 169 days ago; Modified 17 years and 168 days ago;
#439763 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: hangs on puppet installs on preseed install
Reported by: [email protected] (Adrian Bridgett); Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:48:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.14; Filed 17 years and 83 days ago; Modified 7 years and 210 days ago;
#445286 [n| | ] [debconf] Readline frontend does not display default / already configured value
Reported by: Francesco Potorti` <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:03:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in versions debconf/1.5.27, debconf/1.5.14; Filed 17 years and 44 days ago; Modified 7 years and 303 days ago;
#457271 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf sometimes fails because of uninitialized value in Template.pm
Reported by: "Peter T. Breuer" <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:48:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.17; Filed 16 years and 332 days ago; Modified 10 years and 201 days ago;
#465537 [n| |=] [debconf] Debconf fails to initialise when /bin/sh is zsh
Reported by: Matthias Berndt <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:48:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 465539; Filed 16 years and 278 days ago; Modified 16 years and 278 days ago;
#478207 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: Use of uninitialized value in join or string
Reported by: Frans Pop <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:00:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: d-i; Found in version debconf/1.5.20; Filed 16 years and 203 days ago; Modified 16 years and 182 days ago;
#486094 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: hangs on selecting "show a side-by-side difference between the versions"
Reported by: Teemu Ikonen <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:18:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.22; Filed 16 years and 157 days ago; Modified 16 years and 153 days ago;
#495592 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: confmodule: _db_cmd joins args with "I" instead of space
Reported by: Max Wiehle <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:48:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.22; Filed 16 years and 90 days ago; Modified 16 years and 87 days ago;
#501794 [n| | ] [debconf] /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: --frontend should override DEBIAN_FRONTEND setting from environment
Reported by: Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:12:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.22; Filed 16 years and 37 days ago; Modified 11 years and 294 days ago;
#510876 [n| |☣] [debconf] debconf should reject problematic passwords
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:24:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 15 years and 315 days ago; Modified 12 years and 194 days ago;
#545324 [n| | ] [debconf] dovecot: Config mechanism horribly broken
Reported by: Paul LeoNerd Evans <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 13:51:15 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 15 years and 72 days ago; Modified 13 years and 362 days ago;
#546051 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf should offer to email or save displayed information
Reported by: Craig Sanders <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:36:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.5.27; Filed 15 years and 67 days ago; Modified 15 years and 67 days ago;
#555052 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf can not initialize frontends Gnome and kde, only Dialog works
Reported by: Wolfgang Schnitker <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:33:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.28; Filed 15 years and 9 days ago; Modified 15 years and 9 days ago;
#573244 [n| | ] [debconf] uninitialized values logged during d-i install
Reported by: Joey Hess <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.28; Filed 14 years and 252 days ago; Modified 14 years and 252 days ago;
#577699 [n| | ] [debconf] cannot reliably be used by non-root users
Reported by: Joey Hess <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:57:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.31; Filed 14 years and 217 days ago; Modified 14 years and 217 days ago;
#584413 [n| | ] [debconf] cannot remove xdm: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: Bad file descriptor
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 11:57:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.32; Filed 14 years and 167 days ago; Modified 14 years and 167 days ago;
#600491 [n| | ] [debconf] Template libpam-runtime/profiles with text frontend proposes a "none of the above" choice which is bogus
Reported by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:45:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 14 years and 30 days ago; Modified 14 years and 29 days ago;
#620150 [n| | ] [debconf] dpkg-reconfigure breaks trigger invokation
Reported by: Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:03:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.28; Filed 13 years and 231 days ago; Modified 13 years and 231 days ago;
#633748 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC
Reported by: Regid Ichira <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:54:21 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.40; Filed 13 years and 127 days ago; Modified 13 years and 127 days ago;
#635032 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: question data loss in some frontends (teletype, readline, at least)
Reported by: Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:45:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.40; Filed 13 years and 118 days ago; Modified 11 years and 235 days ago;
#641957 [n| |♙] [debconf] Infinite loop in /usr/share/debconf/frontend because of unitialized value in WrapI18N.pm
Reported by: Eric Buchlin <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:18:52 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.40; Fix blocked by 638950: libtext-wrapi18n-perl: Fail to upload from stable to testing: Use of uninitialized value $text in concatenation; Filed 13 years and 60 days ago; Modified 13 years and 56 days ago;
#657630 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: Silently fails on multi-line values in db_set
Reported by: Matthijs Kooijman <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:09:20 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.41; Filed 12 years and 293 days ago; Modified 12 years and 292 days ago;
#668129 [n| | ] [debconf] /usr/bin/apt-get: apt-get + quiet + ouput to non-terminal = control characters
Reported by: Jayen Ashar <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 02:36:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 12 years and 221 days ago; Modified 12 years and 219 days ago;
#670654 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: Missing dependency? Couldn't recognize the image file format
Reported by: Chris <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:51:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.42; Filed 12 years and 202 days ago; Modified 5 years and 138 days ago;
#708650 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf-show failed
Reported by: shirish शिरीष <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 14:15:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.50; Filed 11 years and 182 days ago; Modified 11 years and 182 days ago;
#738956 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: Specifying `Frontend` in `debconf.conf` fails
Reported by: Paul Menzel <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:15:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.49; Filed 10 years and 275 days ago; Modified 10 years and 275 days ago;
#747945 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf.conf(5) is misleading as to the default value of Extension for PackageDir
Reported by: Steven McDonald <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 09:27:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.53; Filed 10 years and 187 days ago; Modified 10 years and 187 days ago;
#748427 [n| | ] [debconf] menu during package config defeats this user
Reported by: Lou Poppler <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 04:27:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.49; Filed 10 years and 183 days ago; Modified 10 years and 182 days ago;
#761034 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf-set-selections is ignored
Reported by: Harald Dunkel <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 07:24:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.49; Filed 10 years and 67 days ago; Modified 10 years and 66 days ago;
#782463 [n| |=] [debconf] debconf: purging package that uses debconf fails if postrm writes to stdout
Reported by: Tristan Schmelcher <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:21:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: stretch-ignore; Merged with 855912; Found in versions debconf/1.5.60, debconf/1.5.51; Filed 9 years and 217 days ago; Modified 7 years and 177 days ago;
#784293 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf -- vsftpd: unable to set FTP root directory
Reported by: Dmitry Smirnov <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 01:39:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.56; Filed 9 years and 195 days ago; Modified 9 years and 194 days ago;
#798819 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: support for Wayland
Reported by: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 08:54:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.57; Filed 9 years and 64 days ago; Modified 294 days ago;
#827788 [n| | ] [debconf] Surprising ordering requirement between SETTITLE and SUBST
Reported by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 02:45:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.59; Filed 8 years and 147 days ago; Modified 8 years and 147 days ago;
#849118 [n| | ] [debconf] question owner set inconsistently for multiarch packages; breaks purge
Reported by: dann frazier <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:45:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.59; Filed 7 years and 327 days ago; Modified 7 years and 327 days ago;
#930370 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: Overriding debconf db with file fails with a message "access to disallowed key Filename in restricted hash"
Reported by: Jiri Palecek <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:51:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.71; Filed 5 years and 156 days ago; Modified 5 years and 156 days ago;
#931682 [n|🌐| ] [debconf] debconf: dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration uses wrong locale settings
Reported by: Christian <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 09:12:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: l10n; Found in version debconf/1.5.71; Filed 5 years and 129 days ago; Modified 5 years and 129 days ago;
#939379 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: Specifying frontend in debconf.conf not effective
Reported by: Konstantinos Dalamagkidis <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 09:39:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.61; Filed 5 years and 72 days ago; Modified 5 years and 72 days ago;
#948479 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: Readline Multiselect with one item: missing "none of the above"
Reported by: Fabrice BAUZAC <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 08:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.73; Filed 4 years and 310 days ago; Modified 4 years and 310 days ago;
#989770 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: dialog frontend overwrites previous lines in terminal when spawning
Reported by: Matteo Settenvini <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 09:21:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.77; Filed 3 years and 155 days ago; Modified 3 years and 155 days ago;
#994020 [n| | ] [debconf] dpkg-reconfigure debconf db modes (permitions) not as configured
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 22:27:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.77; Filed 3 years and 65 days ago; Modified 224 days ago;
#998403 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: "Use of uninitialized value ...." when used with debconf-apt-progress --config settings
Reported by: Amy Fong <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 17:45:07 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.77; Filed 3 years and 10 days ago; Modified 3 years and 10 days ago;
#1004965 [n| | ] [debconf] -1: unknown option error from whiptail
Reported by: Joey Hess <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 13:27:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debconf/1.5.79; Filed 2 years and 283 days ago; Modified 2 years and 282 days ago;
#1016644 [n| |☣] [debconf] debconf-set-selections: Please allow to preseed the 'error' type
Reported by: Arnaud Rebillout <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 14:00:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 102 days ago; Modified 2 years and 25 days ago;
#1038857 [n| | ] [debconf] apt-utils: installed but aptitude claims not installed.
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:54:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 145 days ago; Modified 1 year and 142 days ago;
#1073992 [n| | ] [debconf] debconf: failure between unpack and configure dpkg runs via apt
Reported by: Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:57:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 145 days ago; Modified 49 days ago;

#460916 [n|M| ] [debconf] libsensors4: on upgrade, side-by-side comparison hangs up
Reported by: Ross Boylan <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:12:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Filed 16 years and 306 days ago; Modified 16 years and 252 days ago;
#784081 [n|M| ] [debconf] debian-installer-8-netboot-amd64: expert netboot install hangs at step install_packages (tasksel): uninitialized value in vec at /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress
Reported by: Hendrik Schaink <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 20:21:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: d-i, moreinfo; Found in version debconf/1.5.56; Filed 9 years and 197 days ago; Modified 9 years and 194 days ago;
#795396 [n|M| ] [debconf] aptitude: DEBIAN_FRONTEND does not affect the debconf invoked by "aptitude
Reported by: "Karl O. Pinc" <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 16:09:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Filed 9 years and 94 days ago; Modified 9 years and 61 days ago;

#50595 [n|☹|=] [debconf] debconf: Use of confmodule interface in postinsts is borked
Reported by: <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:03:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: wontfix; Merged with 164396; Found in version 1.2.10; Filed 25 years and 1 day ago; Modified 22 years and 37 days ago;
#142944 [n|+☹|=] [debconf] debconf: db_stop isn't enough to let apacheconfig run
Reported by: [email protected] (Mark W. Eichin); Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 04:48:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: bookworm, bullseye, buster, jessie, patch, sid, stretch, trixie, wontfix; Merged with 193694; Filed 22 years and 218 days ago; Modified 1 year and 155 days ago;

#487300 [m|+| ] [debconf] debconf: purging a package doesn't always purge the template space if d-s-s is run after package installation
Reported by: Bryan McLellan <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:12:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: patch; Found in versions debconf/1.5.11etch1, debconf/1.5.59; Filed 16 years and 149 days ago; Modified 5 years and 84 days ago;
#493321 [m|+| ] [debconf] No space between error title and error text in web frontend
Reported by: Chris Lamb <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 02:30:04 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: patch; Found in version debconf/1.5.23; Filed 16 years and 107 days ago; Modified 9 years and 289 days ago;
#493324 [m|+| ] [debconf] Web frontend should really be styled
Reported by: Chris Lamb <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 04:42:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: patch; Found in version debconf/1.5.23; Filed 16 years and 107 days ago; Modified 9 years and 289 days ago;
#495217 [m|+| ] [debconf] debconf: LDAP driver improvements (PATCH)
Reported by: Davor Ocelic <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:15:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: patch; Found in versions debconf/1.5.23, debconf/1.5.22; Filed 16 years and 94 days ago; Modified 16 years and 14 days ago;

#214916 [m| | ] [debconf] It should be possible to attach longer descriptions to long selections lists
Reported by: Enrico Zini <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:03:37 UTC; Severity: minor; Filed 21 years and 41 days ago; Modified 20 years and 183 days ago;
#243219 [m| | ] [debconf] debconf: Initialises frontend even when not using it
Reported by: Morten Brix Pedersen <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:48:03 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version 1.4.21; Filed 20 years and 220 days ago; Modified 20 years and 46 days ago;
#273435 [m| | ] [debconf] dpkg-reconfigure: spelling of noninteractive
Reported by: Christian Hammers <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 04:33:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version 1.4.36; Filed 20 years and 53 days ago; Modified 20 years and 53 days ago;
#299213 [m| | ] [debconf] please document that ~/.debconfrc doesn't use $HOME to determine ~
Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:33:06 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version 1.4.46; Filed 19 years and 250 days ago; Modified 19 years and 250 days ago;
#316226 [m| | ] [debconf] debconf: Debconf::Db::shutdown do not save all drivers
Reported by: "Sylvain Ferriol" <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:48:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version 1.4.51; Filed 19 years and 142 days ago; Modified 19 years and 142 days ago;
#389156 [m| | ] [debconf] debconf: "Wrong" logo installed at /usr/share/pixmaps/debian-logo.png
Reported by: Alexander Schmehl <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:18:22 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version debconf/1.5.4; Filed 18 years and 55 days ago; Modified 18 years and 44 days ago;
#405659 [m| | ] [debconf] "Kde" should be capitalized in Template: debconf/frontend
Reported by: Filipus Klutiero <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:03:10 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version debconf/1.5.11; Filed 17 years and 317 days ago; Modified 17 years and 282 days ago;
#474225 [m| | ] [debconf] ucf: side-by-side diff is almost unreadable in gtk debconf frontend
Reported by: James Westby <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:57:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Filed 16 years and 227 days ago; Modified 3 years and 360 days ago;
#499902 [m| | ] [debconf] debconf: one more problem while running inside Emacs' shell buffer
Reported by: Francesco Potorti` <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:21:03 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version debconf/1.5.22; Filed 16 years and 54 days ago; Modified 16 years and 54 days ago;
#563572 [m| | ] [debconf] dpkg-reconfigure: exposes error message from dpkg --status
Reported by: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:36:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version debconf/1.5.28; Filed 14 years and 317 days ago; Modified 14 years and 317 days ago;
#628595 [m| | ] [debconf] /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: Swedish translation shown instead of Norwegian.
Reported by: Lene Noteng <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 14:57:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version debconf/1.5.36.1; Filed 13 years and 170 days ago; Modified 13 years and 170 days ago;
#688806 [m| | ] [debconf] Crufty stdout fd3 comment in debconf/confmodule
Reported by: John Morrissey <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:03:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version debconf/1.5.46; Filed 12 years and 51 days ago; Modified 12 years and 51 days ago;
#701740 [m| | ] [debconf] debconf: move debconf-utils from Suggested to Recommended dep
Reported by: Sean Channel <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:09:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version 1.5.46ubuntu1; Filed 11 years and 262 days ago; Modified 11 years and 262 days ago;
#726148 [m| | ] [debconf] Subroutine Debconf::FrontEnd::Editor::SUPER::screenwidth redefined
Reported by: Jamie Heilman <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 20:09:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version debconf/1.5.51; Filed 11 years and 34 days ago; Modified 7 years and 244 days ago;

#511889 [w|+| ] [debconf] debconf: Allow different file and package name in frontend initialization
Reported by: Davor Ocelic <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version debconf/1.5.24; Filed 15 years and 306 days ago; Modified 15 years and 306 days ago;
#1083078 [w|🌐+| ] [debconf] [INTL:ro] Translation of "debconf-man_1.5.87" to Romanian
Reported by: Remus-Gabriel Chelu <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 09:03:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: l10n, patch; Found in version debconf/1.5.87; Filed 43 days ago; Modified 43 days ago;

#46032 [w| | ] [debconf] wishlist for new datatypes
Reported by: Ben Collins <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 15:33:00 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 25 years and 54 days ago; Modified 16 years and 291 days ago;
#46250 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: wishlist: an integer type for config data
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:48:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 0.1.42; Filed 25 years and 51 days ago; Modified 25 years and 52 days ago;
#58980 [w| | ] [debconf] dialog frontend is kooky
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:03:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 24 years and 268 days ago; Modified 24 years and 124 days ago;
#59870 [w| |=] [debconf] debconf: Debconf should have an escape option
Reported by: Bob Hilliard <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 23:03:11 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 60020; Found in version 0.2.94; Filed 24 years and 256 days ago; Modified 24 years and 227 days ago;
#67097 [w| |=] [debconf] option to list packages using debconf
Reported by: torkel <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:03:22 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 99818; Found in versions 0.3.51, 0.9.58; Filed 24 years and 130 days ago; Modified 20 years and 18 days ago;
#78215 [w| | ] [debconf] Attributes on certian message displays, sysnews for users ...
Reported by: [email protected] (Karl M. Hegbloom); Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 07:18:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 23 years and 356 days ago; Modified 23 years and 356 days ago;
#98611 [w| |=] [debconf] debconf: Please show, that input was accepted.
Reported by: Jochen Pawletta <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 111672; Found in version 0.2.80.17; Filed 23 years and 178 days ago; Modified 20 years and 47 days ago;
#100385 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: feature to auto-fill a selection list
Reported by: Yann Dirson <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 12:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 0.9.62; Filed 23 years and 162 days ago; Modified 23 years and 162 days ago;
#122520 [w| | ] [debconf] including support for graphic files
Reported by: Robert Millan <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 13:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 22 years and 349 days ago; Modified 19 years and 159 days ago;
#122522 [w| | ] [debconf] parsing URLs
Reported by: Robert Millan <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 13:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 22 years and 349 days ago; Modified 19 years and 159 days ago;
#123086 [w| | ] [debconf] refer to x-terminal-emulator
Reported by: Robert Millan <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 15:18:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 22 years and 344 days ago; Modified 22 years and 343 days ago;
#125923 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: Summaries
Reported by: Simon Richter <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 22 years and 333 days ago; Modified 22 years and 332 days ago;
#126752 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: Add help buttons
Reported by: Bill Wohler <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:18:00 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.0.21; Filed 22 years and 325 days ago; Modified 22 years and 324 days ago;
#134191 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: a janitor-type script to cleanup stray entries would be useful
Reported by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 03:33:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.0.26; Filed 22 years and 276 days ago; Modified 22 years and 276 days ago;
#167177 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: Option that lists all frontends.
Reported by: "Dr. Rafael Sepulveda" <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 02:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.2.13; Filed 22 years and 19 days ago; Modified 20 years and 12 days ago;
#202059 [w| | ] [debconf] A way to detect changes.
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:48:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 21 years and 123 days ago; Modified 21 years and 117 days ago;
#207508 [w| | ] [debconf] skipping configuration for a package
Reported by: Andrew Pimlott <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:48:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 21 years and 83 days ago; Modified 21 years and 83 days ago;
#216261 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: change iterator specification in stack driver
Reported by: "Sylvain Ferriol" <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:03:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.3.14; Filed 21 years and 32 days ago; Modified 9 years and 213 days ago;
#224154 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: please consider adding support to save messages on request
Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:03:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.3.22; Filed 20 years and 337 days ago; Modified 20 years and 338 days ago;
#241990 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: Please include configure-debian/configure-packages in debconf
Reported by: David Nusinow <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 07:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.4.21; Filed 20 years and 228 days ago; Modified 20 years and 87 days ago;
#245891 [w| | ] [debconf] It is difficult to change the priority of debconf for installation-in-progress
Reported by: Nathan Hurst <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 01:33:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.4.22; Filed 20 years and 206 days ago; Modified 20 years and 206 days ago;
#249119 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: A way to mark templates as unused would be nice
Reported by: Joshua Kwan <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 07:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 20 years and 187 days ago; Modified 20 years and 186 days ago;
#250306 [w| | ] [debconf] dpkg-reconfigure: please provide some 'from scratch' option
Reported by: "Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 00:03:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.4.25; Filed 20 years and 180 days ago; Modified 20 years and 180 days ago;
#251812 [w| | ] [debconf] TITLE should be deprecated in favour of SETTITLE
Reported by: Margarita Manterola <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 03:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 20 years and 171 days ago; Modified 20 years and 171 days ago;
#257704 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: Could you change default priority to 'high'?
Reported by: Kenshi Muto <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.4.29; Filed 20 years and 135 days ago; Modified 20 years and 135 days ago;
#258021 [w| | ] [debconf] Please support the use of Indices fields for sorting Select/Multiselect choices according to the translated language collate order
Reported by: Margarita Manterola <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:48:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 20 years and 174 days ago; Modified 20 years and 134 days ago;
#265355 [w| | ] [debconf] Command-line switch to override readonly db in debconf-copydb
Reported by: Christian Hudon <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:48:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.4.30; Filed 20 years and 97 days ago; Modified 20 years and 97 days ago;
#273445 [w| | ] [debconf] Request for a better consistency in translatable strings
Reported by: Frans Pop <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:48:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.4.36; Filed 20 years and 58 days ago; Modified 18 years and 153 days ago;
#274861 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: dpkg-reconfigure wishlist
Reported by: Gordon Haverland <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:48:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.4.38; Filed 20 years and 45 days ago; Modified 13 years and 299 days ago;
#276449 [w| | ] [debconf] please document libterm requirement for backup
Reported by: martin f krafft <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.4.38; Filed 20 years and 35 days ago; Modified 20 years and 34 days ago;
#288618 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: Add support for compressed files (*-old, *dpkg)
Reported by: Jari <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:03:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.4.41; Filed 19 years and 317 days ago; Modified 3 years and 53 days ago;
#312071 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: please add "ReadOnce" option to debconf.conf database definition
Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 10:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.4.50; Filed 19 years and 166 days ago; Modified 17 years and 153 days ago;
#312072 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: please consider a http method for readonly file databases
Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 10:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.4.50; Filed 19 years and 166 days ago; Modified 19 years and 105 days ago;
#325338 [w| | ] [debconf] /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: dpkg-reconfigure has no man information about priority
Reported by: Jutta Wrage <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:18:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.4.30.13; Filed 19 years and 82 days ago; Modified 15 years and 121 days ago;
#325586 [w| | ] [debconf] WBNI there was a way to create an unknown sized debconf note
Reported by: Gustavo Noronha Silva <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:33:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 19 years and 81 days ago; Modified 19 years and 80 days ago;
#338175 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: Have color choices in dialog interface
Reported by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:03:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.4.58; Filed 19 years and 9 days ago; Modified 19 years and 9 days ago;
#347983 [w| | ] [debconf] wasted borders around selection boxes
Reported by: Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:19:15 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 18 years and 308 days ago; Modified 18 years and 274 days ago;
#382186 [w| | ] [debconf] Proposed changes to the debconf templates
Reported by: Emanuele Aina <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:33:10 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.2; Filed 18 years and 101 days ago; Modified 18 years and 94 days ago;
#398707 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: noninteractive frontend should display questions being asked
Reported by: Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.8; Filed 18 years and 3 days ago; Modified 7 years and 292 days ago;
#400316 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: please add possibility for input sanitazion
Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:18:17 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.9; Filed 17 years and 358 days ago; Modified 17 years and 358 days ago;
#403388 [w| | ] [debconf] Suggested way of softly disabling debconf notes
Reported by: Thomas Huriaux <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:03:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.10; Filed 17 years and 336 days ago; Modified 17 years and 312 days ago;
#436114 [w| | ] [debconf] better password template type
Reported by: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:57:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.13; Filed 17 years and 104 days ago; Modified 17 years and 104 days ago;
#471766 [w| | ] [debconf] ucf: Please support a more friendly interface, with capable pager
Reported by: GSR <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:12:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 16 years and 242 days ago; Modified 16 years and 242 days ago;
#471918 [w| | ] [debconf] warn of emacs shell buffer only if intending to ask questions
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:30:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.20; Filed 16 years and 241 days ago; Modified 16 years and 241 days ago;
#481987 [w| | ] [debconf] dpkg-reconfigure: unset $HOME
Reported by: Karl Chen <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:06:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.21; Filed 16 years and 181 days ago; Modified 16 years and 181 days ago;
#504056 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: please provide a way to hint fixed-width text in gui frontends
Reported by: sean finney <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:12:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.24; Filed 16 years and 17 days ago; Modified 16 years and 17 days ago;
#512697 [w| | ] [debconf] allow .debconfrc to be any file
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:27:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.24; Filed 15 years and 298 days ago; Modified 15 years and 298 days ago;
#514957 [w| | ] [debconf] mysql-server: installation requires tab key or use of mouse
Reported by: howlingmadhowie <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 15 years and 278 days ago; Modified 12 years and 187 days ago;
#518648 [w| | ] [debconf] ucf: Diff screen is not as usable as a simple pager
Reported by: Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 17:12:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 15 years and 254 days ago; Modified 12 years and 279 days ago;
#526831 [w| | ] [debconf] dpkg-preconfigure: work without apt-extracttemplates
Reported by: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 20:15:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.26; Filed 15 years and 197 days ago; Modified 15 years and 197 days ago;
#531698 [w| | ] [debconf] [locales] dpkg-reconfigure locales should allow to select none/all
Reported by: Simon Eugster <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:06:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 15 years and 167 days ago; Modified 15 years and 120 days ago;
#537870 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: Make libterm-readline-gnu-perl a Recommends?
Reported by: Tim Retout <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.27; Filed 15 years and 119 days ago; Modified 14 years and 305 days ago;
#540598 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: re-ask old questions again option gone?
Reported by: Jayen <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 02:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.27; Filed 15 years and 100 days ago; Modified 15 years and 100 days ago;
#566349 [w| | ] [debconf] warn only after the installation is complete if something is still wrong
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 14 years and 298 days ago; Modified 14 years and 295 days ago;
#574531 [w| | ] [debconf] Change output of debconf-set-selections to another file
Reported by: Chris Hiestand <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:03:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.24; Filed 14 years and 243 days ago; Modified 14 years and 243 days ago;
#596652 [w| | ] [debconf] man page should mention debconf-show
Reported by: Guillaume Allegre <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:09:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.32; Filed 14 years and 65 days ago; Modified 14 years and 65 days ago;
#608536 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: editor frontend silently omits invalid values
Reported by: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 07:09:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.36; Filed 13 years and 320 days ago; Modified 13 years and 320 days ago;
#611402 [w|♿| ] [debconf] debconf: Extend the dark theme of the installer to installed system
Reported by: Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:09:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: a11y; Found in version debconf/1.5.24; Filed 13 years and 292 days ago; Modified 7 years and 131 days ago;
#615923 [w| | ] [debconf] delay warnings until it is clear that some interaction is done?
Reported by: Matthias Klose <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 03:39:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 13 years and 261 days ago; Modified 13 years and 261 days ago;
#633497 [w| | ] [debconf] add abort method
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:06:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.40; Filed 13 years and 129 days ago; Modified 13 years and 129 days ago;
#646252 [w| | ] [debconf] Please provide a way to check if debconf is running interactive or noninteractive frontend
Reported by: Robert Luberda <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:57:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.41; Filed 13 years and 25 days ago; Modified 13 years and 25 days ago;
#690390 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: Use config file defaults instead of cache
Reported by: Bas Wijnen <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:00:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.46; Filed 12 years and 33 days ago; Modified 12 years and 33 days ago;
#712893 [w| | ] [debconf] dpkg-reconfigure locales: Add info about using space bar to toggle locales
Reported by: Stef CT <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:45:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 11 years and 148 days ago; Modified 11 years and 148 days ago;
#732845 [w| | ] [debconf] /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: Maintainer scripts not run in correct selinux context
Reported by: Laurent Bigonville <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.52; Filed 10 years and 329 days ago; Modified 10 years and 329 days ago;
#760121 [w| | ] [debconf] add debconf-show --priorities packagename
Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 23:54:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.53; Filed 10 years and 76 days ago; Modified 10 years and 76 days ago;
#766431 [w| | ] [debconf] Dialog frontend warnings when in fact no question is going to be asked
Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 02:21:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.53; Filed 10 years and 24 days ago; Modified 10 years and 24 days ago;
#922818 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: Add a socket bridge to handle running frontend as normal user
Reported by: Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.70; Filed 5 years and 267 days ago; Modified 4 years and 344 days ago;
#927349 [w| | ] [debconf] dpkg-reconfigure: show question count
Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:15:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.71; Filed 5 years and 211 days ago; Modified 5 years and 211 days ago;
#930878 [w| | ] [debconf] fix_db.pl should insist on being run by root
Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:06:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.72; Filed 5 years and 146 days ago; Modified 5 years and 146 days ago;
#955605 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf should support custom order for multiselect (or new entry type)
Reported by: Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 08:39:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.73; Filed 4 years and 225 days ago; Modified 4 years and 225 days ago;
#987892 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf: prefer dialog over whiptail (or make it configurable?)
Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 15:57:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.76; Filed 3 years and 196 days ago; Modified 3 years and 196 days ago;
#1023454 [w| | ] [debconf] debconf-show: add --selections option to format output for debconf-set-selections
Reported by: Marvin Renich <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 14:21:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debconf/1.5.79; Filed 2 years and 9 days ago; Modified 2 years and 9 days ago;

#86817 [w|M| ] [debconf] debconf sends mail in EUC-JP encoding
Reported by: Fumitoshi UKAI <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 04:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo; Found in versions 0.5.34, 1.4.28; Filed 23 years and 271 days ago; Modified 7 years and 293 days ago;

#383607 [w|☹| ] [debconf] Set default priority to "low"
Reported by: Michelle Konzack <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:03:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Found in version debconf/1.4.30.13; Filed 18 years and 92 days ago; Modified 16 years and 180 days ago;

#1087002 [m|+| ] [debconf] dpkg-preconfigure.8: Some remarks and editorial changes for this man page
Reported by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 23:12:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: patch; Found in version debconf/1.5.87; Done: Colin Watson <[email protected]>; Can be archived in 23 days;

Status
- 206 Outstanding
- 1 Resolved
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- 14 Important bugs
- 98 Normal bugs
- 19 Minor bugs
- 76 Wishlist items
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- 15 Patch Available
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- 4 More information needed
- 3 Will Not Fix

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