Debian Bug report logs - #235444
base-config loops over the same questions

Package: debconf; Maintainer for debconf is Debconf Developers <[email protected]>; Source for debconf is src:debconf (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Konstantinos Margaritis <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:03:04 UTC

Severity: normal

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On Thursday 04 March 2004 03:16, Joey Hess wrote:
> Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> Well the grep output is coming from part of base-config, but I
> can't understand why that would happen. Are you using the
> debian-installer netinst CD?

Yes, even the latest 20040303 sid netinst from gluck. The last one I 
tried (20040301) also showed this behaviour (come to think of it, 
pretty much all the last ones...). 
Hm, I am not really knowledgeable of base-config's inernals, but this 
seems to be called in lib/prep-menu. Well, apparently the for loop 
includes some empty value, perhaps the grep part should be replaced 
by a simple 

test $i || grep $i ...

> The tasksel thing is not a bug, tasksel is meant to show only
> available tasks.

Ah, I see. 

Konstantinos

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