As discussed on the #rt IRC channel several months ago, the Debian packages
set WebBaseURL from debconf, when upstream says that this should nearly
never be set directly.

I suspect that this isn't strictly required, but may be wise purely so
that when people ask for help the configuration is more what people
expect.

There was a related problem where the user was confused about trailing
slashes (RT complains but debconf should have complained instead).

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