Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze

[Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>]

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 16:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com> writes:
> 
> > Here's an updated patch to apply the following wording:
> >
> >         Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary.
> >         Prompting must be done by communicating through a program, such
> >         as debconf, which conforms to the Debian Configuration
> >         Management Specification, version 2 or higher.
> >         
> >         Packages which are essential, or which are dependencies of
> >         essential packages, may fall back on another prompting method if
> >         no such interface is available when they are executed.
> 
> Seconded.

That seems to be accepted by everyone, so I've pushed it to policy now.

I hope that's the right thing...  Please tell me if I've done something
the wrong way, or whatever.

Cheers,
					Andrew.

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