Re: Adding a Pre-Depends on debconf in console-common?
Josip Rodin wrote:
> I think the real question is -- why does a package need to ask a question
> (via debconf) in preinst? I can't imagine but a few cases where this would
> be really necessary...
Asking questions is not the only thing you can do with debconf... In the
particular case of console-common, it checks the correctness of some
variables as far as I can see. This probably should have been done in
the config script though.
Roland
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