Re: Make debconf mandatory for prompting the user

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Adam Heath]
> Ignored is understandable.  We are all volunteers.
> 
> Which were refused?  'required feature' is not reason enough.

I checked my bug reports and the bug database for Skolelinux.  Here is
a summary of the ten packages we needed to convert to debconf.  We
dropped postgresql, php4-pgsql, vold and gpm, and make our own patched
php4 packages.

Solved in time for Woody
------------------------

  pcmcia-cd - no patch from me, solved by the maintainer
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=127899

  samba  - no patch from me, solved by the maintainer
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=127959

  webalizer - patch accepted
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=127904

Solved in Sid/Testing, unsolved in Woody
----------------------------------------

  postgresql - no patch from me, solved in sid, unsolved in woody
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=127960

  ispell-dicts - no patch from me, solved in sid, unsolved in woody
           (fixed to accept DEBIAN_FRONOTEND=noninteractive instead).
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=123641

Unsolved
--------

  exim 3 - asked to use exim 4 instead
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=86210

  php4 - patch ignored / not required by policy
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=122353

  php4-pgsql - patch ignored
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=127961

  vold - no patch from me, bug report ignored
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=128014

  gpm - no patch from me, bug report ignored
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=129070