Re: Bug#176506: Make debconf mandatory for prompting the user

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:47:20AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The problem is that within the rules of your policy every single of your 
> over thousand maintainers can decide how he wants to maintain his 
> packages. Currently a maintainer can simply refuse to use debconf and 
> _noone_ can force him to use debconf. There are bugs with patches like 
> e.g. #127961 that are already ignored for a year or longer.

And putting a "must" in the Policy magically fixes all such issues?

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