Re: "All packages use debconf" (wasRe: Better development announcements)

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org> [20010717 10:19]:
> >  All packages are supposed to use debconf, but many (or, at least,
> > some) developers are not aware of this.
> 
> Please ghod, no.
> 
> Packages that *must* ask a question during the install (i.e. those
> that *cannot* ship a resonable default configuration file as a
> conffile) should use debconf in preference to asking during the
> postinst.

Oops, of course; this was self-evident for me so I forgot to mention
it... sorry.