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Re: configure a program -- debconf abuse?



[Hamish Moffatt]
> I thought policy said something stronger than that, but I seem to be
> wrong. Best practice used to be to ask questions only when there was
> no sensible default whatsoever. Not to ask everything possible just
> because you can.

Keeping the question priority at 'low' make sure most users will not
see the question, and that only reconfigure will present it.  I hope
you are not setting the debconf priority limit to low. :)



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