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Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian



Steve Greenland wrote:
> I've read (or at least skimmed) the tutorial you posted, and it
> looks like the various configuration variables are associated with a
> package via the template "foo/variable". What about variables that are
> logically shared between packages, such as the default directory for
> the webservers, or news server name, and such. Is it acceptable for the
> group of affected maintainers to use the virtual package name as the
> variable package name? Or would some other way be better?

I think we'll eventually let the policy group deal with this. For now there
really arn't any rules, just common sense. Yes, I think it's acceptable to
use virtual package names.

The two packages I have now that share a variable name and slrn and
slrnpull, they use news/server, which isn't exactly mapped to a virtual
package name, since slrn and slrnpull don't share a virtual package name.

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