debconf
Debian configuration management system
Binary packages in testing
| Architecture | Version | Section | Installed size |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | 1.5.92 | admin | 508 kB |
Description
Debian configuration management system
Dependencies all
- Recommends
- apt (>= 2.9.11~) | apt-utils, debconf-i18n
- Suggests
- debconf-doc, debconf-kde-helper, debconf-utils, libgtk3-perl, libnet-ldap-perl, libterm-readline-gnu-perl, perl, whiptail | dialog
Source package
- Name
- debconf
- Version
- 1.5.92
- Maintainer
- Debconf Developers
- Repository
- https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf
Bugs (233 open)
Each bug opens in the Debian bug tracking system, which holds its message log and current state.
- #1136114 important debconf: validate format and driver names before eval STRING on bugs.debian.org pending by Sebastian EM reported updated patch
- #954929 important libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Please provide backport to stable on bugs.debian.org pending by Felix Lechner reported updated
- #845563 important apt-get update which ends up in grub-probe loops near Stack.pm uninitialized value on bugs.debian.org pending by Graeme Vetterlein reported updated
- #740378 important dpkg-reconfigure -a -u doesn't work anymore on bugs.debian.org pending by Klaus Ethgen reported updated
- #699388 important frontend segfaults right after perl update on bugs.debian.org pending by Eduard Bloch reported updated
- #665901 important debconf: Hangs if programs try to use if after db_stop was called. on bugs.debian.org pending by Robert Luberda reported updated
- #655957 important shows unreadable questions on bugs.debian.org pending by Michael Tokarev reported updated
- #608674 important debconf calls .config script with bad arguments when "postinst triggered" is run on bugs.debian.org pending by Christoph Berg reported updated
- #604114 important debconf gets confused by "postinst triggered" on bugs.debian.org pending by Kurt Roeckx reported updated
- #601763 important debconf: Debconf::ConfModule::communicate hangs on $_=<$r> || return $this->finish on bugs.debian.org pending by v.nix.is reported updated
- #534180 important Cannot use variable in Default field for multiselect on bugs.debian.org pending by David Paleino reported updated
- #495319 important debconf: uses first choice for select if old choice doesn't exist anymore on bugs.debian.org pending by Bas Wijnen reported updated
- #480015 important KDE frontend does not show package name on bugs.debian.org pending by Peter Eisentraut reported updated
- #443753 important /usr/share/debconf/frontend segfaults on bugs.debian.org pending by Ionut Ciocirlan reported updated
- #309968 important debconf: KDE fronted resets apache-modconf settings on bugs.debian.org pending by Piotr Roszatycki reported updated
- #303284 important debconf-utils: debconf-get-selections fails with 'Can't call method "description" on an undefined value' on bugs.debian.org pending against debconf-utils by Toby Speight reported updated
- #294032 important debconf: Cannot install/update packages via cfrun/cfengine2 on bugs.debian.org pending by Bas van der Vlies reported updated
- #1144150 normal debconf exits without error message when facing a value with newline on bugs.debian.org pending by MichaIng reported updated
- #1142054 normal debconf: Don't report missing dbconfig-postgresql on bugs.debian.org pending by H . -Dirk Schmitt reported updated
- #1131023 normal debconf: When using dialog frontend, scrollbar is missing on bugs.debian.org pending by Brad Barnett reported updated
- #1124774 normal debconf-doc: Where is the user’s guide? on bugs.debian.org pending against debconf-doc by Manny reported updated
- #1109170 normal debconf errors when attempting to remove running kernel in Trixie on bugs.debian.org pending by Benjamin reported updated
- #1108312 normal debconf-apt-progress fails in d-i when libtext-iconv-perl is not installed on bugs.debian.org pending by Jarl Gullberg reported updated d-i
- #1091701 normal debconf: bad error about unable to write templates.dat-new when there is no data to write on bugs.debian.org pending by Russell Coker reported updated
- #1073992 normal debconf: failure between unpack and configure dpkg runs via apt on bugs.debian.org pending by Martin-Éric Racine reported updated
- #1038857 normal apt-utils: installed but aptitude claims not installed. on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #1018261 normal confmodule should be distributed separately from debconf on bugs.debian.org pending by Gioele Barabucci reported updated patch
- #1016644 normal debconf-set-selections: Please allow to preseed the 'error' type on bugs.debian.org pending by Arnaud Rebillout reported updated
- #1004965 normal -1: unknown option error from whiptail on bugs.debian.org pending by Joey Hess reported updated
- #998403 normal debconf: "Use of uninitialized value ...." when used with debconf-apt-progress --config settings on bugs.debian.org pending by Amy Fong reported updated
- #994020 normal dpkg-reconfigure debconf db modes (permitions) not as configured on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #989770 normal debconf: dialog frontend overwrites previous lines in terminal when spawning on bugs.debian.org pending by Matteo Settenvini reported updated
- #948479 normal debconf: Readline Multiselect with one item: missing "none of the above" on bugs.debian.org pending by Fabrice BAUZAC reported updated
- #939379 normal debconf: Specifying frontend in debconf.conf not effective on bugs.debian.org pending by Konstantinos Dalamagkidis reported updated
- #931682 normal debconf: dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration uses wrong locale settings on bugs.debian.org pending by Christian reported updated l10n
- #930370 normal debconf: Overriding debconf db with file fails with a message "access to disallowed key Filename in restricted hash" on bugs.debian.org pending by Jiri Palecek reported updated
- #908001 normal debconf: Fails to populate template cache during package removal on bugs.debian.org pending against src:debconf by Lars Kruse reported updated
- #855912 normal db_purge: exits with error code 8 when using deluser in the same postinst on bugs.debian.org pending by Laurent Bonnaud reported updated stretch-ignore
- #849118 normal question owner set inconsistently for multiarch packages; breaks purge on bugs.debian.org pending by dann frazier reported updated
- #827788 normal Surprising ordering requirement between SETTITLE and SUBST on bugs.debian.org pending by Ben Hutchings reported updated
- #798819 normal debconf: support for Wayland on bugs.debian.org pending by Ritesh Raj Sarraf reported updated
- #795396 normal aptitude: DEBIAN_FRONTEND does not affect the debconf invoked by "aptitude on bugs.debian.org pending by Karl O. Pinc reported updated moreinfo
- #784293 normal debconf -- vsftpd: unable to set FTP root directory on bugs.debian.org pending by Dmitry Smirnov reported updated
- #784081 normal debian-installer-8-netboot-amd64: expert netboot install hangs at step install_packages (tasksel): uninitialized value in vec at /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress on bugs.debian.org pending by Hendrik Schaink reported updated d-imoreinfo
- #782463 normal debconf: purging package that uses debconf fails if postrm writes to stdout on bugs.debian.org pending by Tristan Schmelcher reported updated stretch-ignore
- #761034 normal debconf-set-selections is ignored on bugs.debian.org pending by Harald Dunkel reported updated
- #748427 normal menu during package config defeats this user on bugs.debian.org pending by Lou Poppler reported updated
- #747945 normal debconf.conf(5) is misleading as to the default value of Extension for PackageDir on bugs.debian.org pending by Steven McDonald reported updated
- #738956 normal debconf: Specifying `Frontend` in `debconf.conf` fails on bugs.debian.org pending by Paul Menzel reported updated
- #713823 normal debconf-set-selections complains on error lines in d-g-s output on bugs.debian.org pending against debconf-utils by Marc Haber reported updated
- #708650 normal debconf-show failed on bugs.debian.org pending by shirish शिरीष reported updated
- #681893 normal debconf should create /var/cache/debconf if it doesn't exist on bugs.debian.org pending by Thiago Jung Bauermann reported updated
- #670654 normal debconf: Missing dependency? Couldn't recognize the image file format on bugs.debian.org pending by Chris reported updated
- #668129 normal /usr/bin/apt-get: apt-get + quiet + ouput to non-terminal = control characters on bugs.debian.org pending by Jayen Ashar reported updated
- #664787 normal debconf-doc: debconf-devel(7) does not document entire protocol on bugs.debian.org pending against debconf-doc by James Hunt reported updated
- #657630 normal debconf: Silently fails on multi-line values in db_set on bugs.debian.org pending by Matthijs Kooijman reported updated
- #641957 normal Infinite loop in /usr/share/debconf/frontend because of unitialized value in WrapI18N.pm on bugs.debian.org pending by Eric Buchlin reported updated
- #635032 normal debconf: question data loss in some frontends (teletype, readline, at least) on bugs.debian.org pending by Thorsten Glaser reported updated
- #633748 normal debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC on bugs.debian.org pending by Regid Ichira reported updated
- #620150 normal dpkg-reconfigure breaks trigger invokation on bugs.debian.org pending by Goswin von Brederlow reported updated
- #600491 normal Template libpam-runtime/profiles with text frontend proposes a "none of the above" choice which is bogus on bugs.debian.org pending by Samuel Thibault reported updated
- #584413 normal cannot remove xdm: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: Bad file descriptor on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #577699 normal cannot reliably be used by non-root users on bugs.debian.org pending by Joey Hess reported updated
- #573244 normal uninitialized values logged during d-i install on bugs.debian.org pending by Joey Hess reported updated
- #555052 normal debconf can not initialize frontends Gnome and kde, only Dialog works on bugs.debian.org pending by Wolfgang Schnitker reported updated
- #546051 normal debconf should offer to email or save displayed information on bugs.debian.org pending by Craig Sanders reported updated
- #545324 normal dovecot: Config mechanism horribly broken on bugs.debian.org pending by Paul LeoNerd Evans reported updated
- #510876 normal debconf should reject problematic passwords on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #502308 normal debconf-set-selections does not handle superfluous whitespace on bugs.debian.org pending by Hendrik Jaeger reported updated patch
- #501794 normal /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: --frontend should override DEBIAN_FRONTEND setting from environment on bugs.debian.org pending by Andreas Beckmann reported updated
- #495592 normal debconf: confmodule: _db_cmd joins args with "I" instead of space on bugs.debian.org pending by Max Wiehle reported updated
- #486094 normal debconf: hangs on selecting "show a side-by-side difference between the versions" on bugs.debian.org pending by Teemu Ikonen reported updated
- #478207 normal debconf: Use of uninitialized value in join or string on bugs.debian.org pending by Frans Pop reported updated d-i
- #469354 normal debconf: dpkg-reconfigure should acquire dpkg lock on bugs.debian.org pending by Colin Watson reported updated patch
- #465539 normal Debconf fails to initialise when /bin/sh is zsh on bugs.debian.org pending by Matthias Berndt reported updated
- #465537 normal Debconf fails to initialise when /bin/sh is zsh on bugs.debian.org pending by Matthias Berndt reported updated
- #460916 normal libsensors4: on upgrade, side-by-side comparison hangs up on bugs.debian.org pending by Ross Boylan reported updated moreinfo
- #457271 normal debconf sometimes fails because of uninitialized value in Template.pm on bugs.debian.org pending by Peter T. Breuer reported updated
- #445286 normal Readline frontend does not display default / already configured value on bugs.debian.org pending by Francesco Potorti` reported updated
- #439763 normal debconf: hangs on puppet installs on preseed install on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #427062 normal debconf: dpkg-reconfigure: should set package to "failed-config" if postinst fails on bugs.debian.org pending by Frank Küster reported updated
- #422473 normal debconf takes a long time when displaying large notes on bugs.debian.org pending by Michal Politowski reported updated
- #414440 normal Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib ... on bugs.debian.org pending by Robert Millan reported updated
- #399215 normal libapache2-mod-php4: Emacs readline problem "What would you like to do about php.ini?" on bugs.debian.org pending by Jari Aalto reported updated
- #387895 normal SUBST command return message does not have proper format on bugs.debian.org pending by martin f krafft reported updated
- #379474 normal debconf-copydb: fails, "source does not exist" on bugs.debian.org pending by Eduard Bloch reported updated
- #376688 normal debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline on bugs.debian.org pending by Richard Kettlewell reported updated
- #368532 normal debconf's debconf for priority level should be rephrased for newbies on bugs.debian.org pending by Samuel Thibault reported updated
- #357118 normal debconf: exposes passwords in debug messages on bugs.debian.org pending by Colin Watson reported updated patch
- #352697 normal Bug in configuration file handling example on bugs.debian.org pending against debconf-doc by Anton Zinoviev reported updated
- #337364 normal debconf: Separate stdout/stderr in maintainer scripts using debconf on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #321290 normal debconf-copydb spews lots of errors on templates files on bugs.debian.org pending by Colin Watson reported updated
- #320201 normal debconf: should fallback to teletype frontend if TERM does not have correct value on bugs.debian.org pending by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov reported updated
- #319458 normal Db->save do not shutdown all drivers on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #319177 normal some patchs on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #312251 normal debconf: METAGET doesn't report when field doesn't exist on bugs.debian.org pending by Colin Watson reported updated
- #312248 normal debconf doesn't notice when child process segfaults on bugs.debian.org pending by Colin Watson reported updated
- #298398 normal debconf: dpkg-reconfigure doesn't reconfigure dependent packages on bugs.debian.org pending by Matthew Exon reported updated
- #297540 normal Error message: Can't call method "description"... on bugs.debian.org pending by W. Borgert reported updated
- #292207 normal mysql-server: problem installing the software on bugs.debian.org pending by George Papamichelakis reported updated
- #285172 normal ssh: Mail problem during install, should depend on mail-transport-agent? on bugs.debian.org pending by Cyril Bouthors reported updated
- #272587 normal debconf gnome frontend needs scrollbar on bugs.debian.org pending by Martin Braure de Calignon reported updated
- #270532 normal upgrade of debconf breaks dialog interface on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #269598 normal debconf should have versioned dependancy to debconf-i18n on bugs.debian.org pending by Mantas Kriaučiūnas reported updated
- #265233 normal ideas for improved newt ui on bugs.debian.org pending by Benjamin A. Schmit reported updated
- #265109 normal debconf: error message suggesting broken templates database on bugs.debian.org pending by Robert Ewald reported updated
- #264021 normal man page of dpkg-reconfigure needs to be clarify (--frontend option) on bugs.debian.org pending by Sébastien GALLET reported updated
- #260189 normal Debconf complains about unitialized values on bugs.debian.org pending by Nicolas DEGAND reported updated
- #251417 normal Should sort translated choices alphabetically on bugs.debian.org pending by Margarita Manterola reported updated
- #250751 normal GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_set_valist: construct property "sm-connect" for object `GnomeProgram' can't be set on bugs.debian.org pending by Thomas Hood reported updated sarge
- #249351 normal flashplugin-nonfree 6.0.81-2 installation error on bugs.debian.org pending by John Smith reported updated
- #247134 normal debconf: #226078 revived (was: /var/cache vs. /var/lib) on bugs.debian.org pending by Roland Illig reported updated
- #235444 normal base-config loops over the same questions on bugs.debian.org pending by Konstantinos Margaritis reported updated
- #232296 normal debconf: encoding of English text is not specified on bugs.debian.org pending by Tollef Fog Heen reported updated
- #223039 normal debconf: Default location of config.dat is not FHS compliant? on bugs.debian.org pending by Toni Timonen reported updated
- #218182 normal debconf truncated config.dat on bugs.debian.org pending by Wookey reported updated
- #201703 normal debconf: Configure fails due to unitialized variable on bugs.debian.org pending by Mark Brown reported updated
- #199722 normal note should be named 'warning' on bugs.debian.org pending by Joe Drew reported updated
- #193694 normal stdin not released after debconf db_stop on bugs.debian.org pending by Miernik reported updated bookwormbullseyebusterforkyjessiesidstretchtrixiewontfix
- #192889 normal debconf: Should not be possible to set non-choice as select value on bugs.debian.org pending by Petter Reinholdtsen reported updated
- #189026 normal debconf protocol gobbles whitespace on bugs.debian.org pending by Denis Barbier reported updated patch
- #183361 normal debconf: v1.2.31 822.pm script errors during apt-get install on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #179865 normal dialog frontend does not have inter-block navigation controls, as readline frontend does on bugs.debian.org pending by Joey Hess reported updated patch
- #175636 normal configuration problem during installation on bugs.debian.org pending by Juhapekka Tolvanen reported updated
- #174130 normal debconf: allow empty variable substitutions in Choices field on bugs.debian.org pending by Denis Barbier reported updated patch
- #169868 normal debconf: Choices field may sometimes be sorted according to translated values on bugs.debian.org pending by Denis Barbier reported updated
- #164396 normal debconf requires extra work for daemons on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated wontfix
- #142944 normal debconf: db_stop isn't enough to let apacheconfig run on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated bookwormbullseyebusterforkyjessiesidstretchtrixiewontfix
- #101800 normal text frontend doesn't pause at end on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #50595 normal debconf: Use of confmodule interface in postinsts is borked on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated wontfix
- #1121978 minor debconf: Perl warning "Use of uninitialized value $item" while using tasksel on bugs.debian.org pending by Michael P. Soulier reported updated
- #1089844 minor debconf.1: Some remarks and a patch with editorial changes for this man page on bugs.debian.org pending by Bjarni Ingi Gislason reported updated
- #726148 minor Subroutine Debconf::FrontEnd::Editor::SUPER::screenwidth redefined on bugs.debian.org pending by Jamie Heilman reported updated
- #701740 minor debconf: move debconf-utils from Suggested to Recommended dep on bugs.debian.org pending by Sean Channel reported updated
- #688806 minor Crufty stdout fd3 comment in debconf/confmodule on bugs.debian.org pending by John Morrissey reported updated
- #628595 minor /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: Swedish translation shown instead of Norwegian. on bugs.debian.org pending by Lene Noteng reported updated
- #563572 minor dpkg-reconfigure: exposes error message from dpkg --status on bugs.debian.org pending by Jonathan Nieder reported updated
- #499902 minor debconf: one more problem while running inside Emacs' shell buffer on bugs.debian.org pending by Francesco Potorti` reported updated
- #495217 minor debconf: LDAP driver improvements (PATCH) on bugs.debian.org pending by Davor Ocelic reported updated patch
- #493324 minor Web frontend should really be styled on bugs.debian.org pending by Chris Lamb reported updated patch
- #493321 minor No space between error title and error text in web frontend on bugs.debian.org pending by Chris Lamb reported updated patch
- #487300 minor debconf: purging a package doesn't always purge the template space if d-s-s is run after package installation on bugs.debian.org pending by Bryan McLellan reported updated patch
- #474225 minor ucf: side-by-side diff is almost unreadable in gtk debconf frontend on bugs.debian.org pending by James Westby reported updated
- #466093 minor Misleading description field of debconf-doc on bugs.debian.org pending against debconf-doc by Fabrice Lorrain reported updated
- #405659 minor "Kde" should be capitalized in Template: debconf/frontend on bugs.debian.org pending by Filipus Klutiero reported updated
- #389156 minor debconf: "Wrong" logo installed at /usr/share/pixmaps/debian-logo.png on bugs.debian.org pending by Alexander Schmehl reported updated
- #316226 minor debconf: Debconf::Db::shutdown do not save all drivers on bugs.debian.org pending by Sylvain Ferriol reported updated
- #299213 minor please document that ~/.debconfrc doesn't use $HOME to determine ~ on bugs.debian.org pending by Marc Haber reported updated
- #273435 minor dpkg-reconfigure: spelling of noninteractive on bugs.debian.org pending by Christian Hammers reported updated
- #243219 minor debconf: Initialises frontend even when not using it on bugs.debian.org pending by Morten Brix Pedersen reported updated
- #214916 minor It should be possible to attach longer descriptions to long selections lists on bugs.debian.org pending by Enrico Zini reported updated
- #1111143 wishlist Request to enable to autopkgtest on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #1101919 wishlist Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 23. on bugs.debian.org pending by Helmut Grohne reported updated
- #1023454 wishlist debconf-show: add --selections option to format output for debconf-set-selections on bugs.debian.org pending by Marvin Renich reported updated
- #987892 wishlist debconf: prefer dialog over whiptail (or make it configurable?) on bugs.debian.org pending by Christoph Anton Mitterer reported updated
- #955605 wishlist debconf should support custom order for multiselect (or new entry type) on bugs.debian.org pending by Julian Andres Klode reported updated
- #930878 wishlist fix_db.pl should insist on being run by root on bugs.debian.org pending by 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson reported updated
- #927349 wishlist dpkg-reconfigure: show question count on bugs.debian.org pending by 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson reported updated
- #922818 wishlist debconf: Add a socket bridge to handle running frontend as normal user on bugs.debian.org pending by Julian Andres Klode reported updated
- #893565 wishlist debconf-i18n has priority important on bugs.debian.org pending against debconf-i18n by Christian Göttsche reported updated
- #766431 wishlist Dialog frontend warnings when in fact no question is going to be asked on bugs.debian.org pending by 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson reported updated
- #760121 wishlist add debconf-show --priorities packagename on bugs.debian.org pending by 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson reported updated
- #732845 wishlist /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: Maintainer scripts not run in correct selinux context on bugs.debian.org pending by Laurent Bigonville reported updated
- #712893 wishlist dpkg-reconfigure locales: Add info about using space bar to toggle locales on bugs.debian.org pending by Stef CT reported updated
- #690390 wishlist debconf: Use config file defaults instead of cache on bugs.debian.org pending by Bas Wijnen reported updated
- #646252 wishlist Please provide a way to check if debconf is running interactive or noninteractive frontend on bugs.debian.org pending by Robert Luberda reported updated
- #633497 wishlist add abort method on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #615923 wishlist delay warnings until it is clear that some interaction is done? on bugs.debian.org pending by Matthias Klose reported updated
- #611402 wishlist debconf: Extend the dark theme of the installer to installed system on bugs.debian.org pending by Jean-Philippe MENGUAL reported updated a11y
- #608536 wishlist debconf: editor frontend silently omits invalid values on bugs.debian.org pending by Jonathan Nieder reported updated
- #596652 wishlist man page should mention debconf-show on bugs.debian.org pending by Guillaume Allegre reported updated
- #574531 wishlist Change output of debconf-set-selections to another file on bugs.debian.org pending by Chris Hiestand reported updated
- #566349 wishlist warn only after the installation is complete if something is still wrong on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #542884 wishlist debconf-devel.7: An example for using debconf(1) on bugs.debian.org pending against debconf-doc by sobtwmxt reported updated patch
- #540598 wishlist debconf: re-ask old questions again option gone? on bugs.debian.org pending by Jayen reported updated
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