Re: libdebian-installer Packages support proposal

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:52:19AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Bastian Blank wrote:
> > With this, the following changes can be done easily.
> > 
> > * Support for udebs per frontend.
> 
> Not sure what this means exactly..

For cdebconf plugins, we need to be able to do something along the lines
of this:

  Package: cdebconf-newt-entropy
  Provides: cdebconf-entropy
  XB-Debconf-Frontend: newt

  Package: partman-crypto
  Depends: cdebconf-entropy

... and have anna only allow this to be loaded if you're running the
newt frontend. At present, partman-crypto Depends:
cdebconf-newt-entropy, which obviously isn't ideal for the graphical
installer.

This is analogous to the existing Kernel-Version: field.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]