Re: Bug#176506: Make debconf mandatory for prompting the user
>>"Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:
Adrian> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:25:40AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
>> And putting a "must" in the Policy magically fixes all such issues?
Adrian> It doesn't magically fix something.
Adrian> Policy should document current good practice.
Policy documents current practice. The developers reference
documents good practice.
Additionally, policy is not supposed to change so as to make a
significant number of packages instantly buggy.
Given these caveats, I am in favour of moving packages over to debconf.
manoj
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