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



Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:25:40AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
[Prompting in maintainerscripts must use debconf?]
> AFAIK most developers agree that it's a good thing to use debconf for 
> prompting the user and practice this in their packages (if needed).
[...]

I'd agree with the good thing part but not with adding a RC-bug to
every package not using debconf. At least I think that it should be ok
if the package respects DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive. I am no DD,
though.
                  cu andreas



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