Re: cdebconf 0.159

[Regis Boudin <regis@boudin.name>]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:40:22 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Regis Boudin wrote:
> > Hi everyone !
> >
> > That's it, after a month of testing on my main machine, I uploaded
> > cdebconf 0.159.
> >
> > Although some features are still missing, it should actually be 
> > usable.
> > Well, I've been using it on my main machine for a month with 2 daily
> > updates, and a few "dpkg-reconfigure -a", and all blocking issues 
> > I've
> > seen since August have been identified and fixed.
> >
> > Also, interesting milestone I believe, with a script modified only 
> > to
> > add cdebconf to the required packages if DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF is 
> > set, I
> > could debootstrap a chroot, and compile a KDE application with
> > cowbuilder.
>
> Perhaps it's time to get some wide testing? This could be done by
> temporarily making debconf default DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF=1

Sounds like an idea. the various scripts will probably need an 
additional
check for cdbconf's existence, though, since it caused me trouble

> Independant of that, it would be good to get cdebconf to the point it
> does not depend on debconf.

That would certainly be very nice. The main reason to keep the 
dependency
so far has been because when some scripts were causing trouble I could
switch back easily to finish installing packages. Also because I'm not
certain how to handle the transition.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback.

Regis