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authorSamuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>2012-04-18 22:20:17 +0000
committerSamuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>2012-04-18 22:20:17 +0000
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Mention DEBCONF_DEBUG.
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@@ -1578,6 +1578,14 @@ This will of course only have effect for parameters that correspond to
questions that are actually displayed during an installation and not for
<quote>internal</quote> parameters.
+</para><para>
+
+For more debugging information, use the boot parameter
+<classname>DEBCONF_DEBUG=5</classname>.
+This will cause <classname>debconf</classname> to print much more detail
+about the current settings of each variable and about its progress through
+each package's installation scripts.
+
</para>
</sect2>