Kevin Rosenberg wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > I think you're mistaken about the potinst, see my comments in bug #187213. > > Sorry. I don't see any comments from you in bug #187213. I suppose it'll get there eventually. > > It would be a good idea to make the config script ask any initial > > questions, and only have the postinst be interactive if the download > > fails or something. It's ok to use debconf in postinsts to report and > > deal with failures -- that's what the note question type is for, > > even[1]. > > Okay, I'll move my error recovery loops to postinst. It's interesting, > linda and lintian both warn about dh_input in postinst but don't warn > about dh_input in preinst. Do you think they should warn about > dh_input in preinst? in postinst? Not checking the preinst sounds like an oversight. -- see shy jo
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