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Re: Better development announcements



Josip Rodin wrote:
> BTW but using normal echo+read stuff is still allowed in postrm's on purges,
> right?

Yes of course.

> No tool I've seen does purges automatically, so they are all
> interactive anyway. Besides, it doesn't make much sense to make an addition
> to the debconf database for something that's going away two seconds later,
> if not sooner :)

Well except for other benefits such as uniformity of interface, ease of
translation, ability to force noninteractive mode. Oh and things like
remote caching datbases that _don't_ go away on purge.

-- 
see shy jo



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