[Bug 1773687] Re: [bionic] no unattended installation

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Update:

A friend just pointed out that setting `export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive` helps,
and I verified that in Docker. So _maybe_ we just dropped that setting?

edd at rob:~$ docker run --rm -ti ubuntu:bionic        
root at cf1720b38f97:/# apt-get update                 
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Reading package lists... Done                       
root at cf1720b38f97:/# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive                                               
root at cf1720b38f97:/# apt-get install -y tzdata      
Reading package lists... Done                       
Building dependency tree                            
Reading state information... Done                   
The following NEW packages will be installed:       
  tzdata                                            
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.                                          
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Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 tzdata all 2018d-1 [188 kB]                     
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debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed                                
Selecting previously unselected package tzdata.     
(Reading database ... 4035 files and directories currently installed.)                                   
Preparing to unpack .../tzdata_2018d-1_all.deb ...  
Unpacking tzdata (2018d-1) ...                      
Setting up tzdata (2018d-1) ...                     

Current default time zone: 'Etc/UTC'                
Local time is now:      Mon May 28 17:10:20 UTC 2018.                                                    
Universal Time is now:  Mon May 28 17:10:20 UTC 2018.                                                    
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.                                                  

root at cf1720b38f97:/#

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Title:
  [bionic] no unattended installation

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Package: tzdata
  Version: 2018d-1
  Ubuntu release: 18.04

  There appears to be a regression with the preseeding data for tzdata in the 18.04 release.
  When running 

     apt-get install tzdata

  I now _always_ drop into an interactive selection of the timezone
  'area' and 'zone'. This was not the case before; it is also not the
  case in Debian 'unstable' right now.

  I looked into the postinst script, but I can't figure out where the
  preseeded info would be. I tried debconf-set-selections with a preseed
  file, but no luck.

  This blocks usage of tzdata in Docker containers and is there for a
  bit annoying.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: tzdata 2017c-0ubuntu0.17.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-41.46-generic 4.13.16
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-41-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sun May 27 13:17:42 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-31 (147 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171017.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: tzdata
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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