oem-config task selection doesn't work with debconf-using packages

This is actually a bit more significant than wishlist, since oem-config breaks if you select such a package. It turns out that the main bulk of the fix is in debconf.

However, there is one remaining piece, namely that oem-config's top-level debconf frontend is currently set to reshow all questions, but this causes e.g. mysql-server/root_password to be asked three times during installation of the LAMP server task. Fixing this can wait until after beta, not least because I'm not entirely sure how to do it correctly. I suspect I may have to bite my tongue and clear the seen flag on an explicit list of questions.

This bug was fixed in the package debconf - 1.5.26ubuntu2

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debconf (1.5.26ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debconf-apt-progress: If we didn't start the debconf frontend ourselves,
    then it's unlikely that the passthrough child will be able to start
    debconf normally, so tell it to use a pipe database in that case and
    rely on passthrough to save answers (LP: #337306).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:43:56 +0000

Since fixing the multiple prompting problem appears to be rather intrusive, it doesn't look appropriate for a post-RC upload and there's no point for doing this as an SRU; so I think declining this for jaunty is the correct action.

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This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.