diff -Nru dbconfig-common-1.8.44ubuntu1/debian/changelog dbconfig-common-1.8.44ubuntu1.1/debian/changelog
--- dbconfig-common-1.8.44ubuntu1/debian/changelog	2010-04-16 13:38:17.000000000 +0000
+++ dbconfig-common-1.8.44ubuntu1.1/debian/changelog	2011-06-27 08:19:19.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+dbconfig-common (1.8.44ubuntu1.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix behaviour for automated installs which stops noninteractive,
+    installs from Sean Finney cherrypicked from debian's 1.8.45 (LP: #800543)
+
+ -- Tom Ellis <trellis@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:49:10 +0100
+
 dbconfig-common (1.8.44ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low
 
   * Fix pgsql createdb code to use template0 when encoding is specified,
diff -Nru dbconfig-common-1.8.44ubuntu1/dpkg/common dbconfig-common-1.8.44ubuntu1.1/dpkg/common
--- dbconfig-common-1.8.44ubuntu1/dpkg/common	2010-01-24 01:15:45.000000000 +0000
+++ dbconfig-common-1.8.44ubuntu1.1/dpkg/common	2011-06-27 08:21:45.000000000 +0000
@@ -566,6 +566,10 @@
 	db_go || true
 	db_get $question
 	_dbc_on_error_option="$RET"
+
+	if [ "${DEBIAN_FRONTEND:-}" = "noninteractive" ]; then
+		_dbc_on_error_option="ignore"
+	fi
 	
 	if [ "$_dbc_on_error_option" = "abort" ]; then
 		dbc_abort
@@ -601,6 +605,11 @@
 	db_go || true
 	db_get $dbc_package/install-error
 	_dbc_on_error_option="$RET"
+
+	if [ "${DEBIAN_FRONTEND:-}" = "noninteractive" ]; then
+		echo "dbconfig-common: $dbc_package $dbc_command: noninteractive fail." >&2
+		_dbc_on_error_option="ignore"
+	fi
 	
 	if [ "$_dbc_on_error_option" = "abort" ]; then
 		dbc_abort