On Mon Apr 21, 10:05am -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 19-Apr-03, 11:44 (CDT), David B Harris <david@eelf.ddts.net> wrote: > > > > From debconf-devel(8): "low: Very trivial items that have defaults that > > will work in the vast majority of cases; oinly control freaks see > > these." > > If you have a package that is asking only medium and lower priority > debconf questions, then debconf should not be used at all. Those > priorities *exist* because there are packages that have a high-priority, > non-defaultable question, and once you've broken the conffile system, > you might as well include those questions. Perhaps it was a bad > idea. Another use for those lower priorities is for notes to the > admin. I contend that this second use *is* a bad idea, because the > common implementation is to NOT include the same information under > /usr/share/doc/<pkg>, and thus those of us who have low and medium > priority turned off lose that info. I never said otherwise, and in fact I have followed that practice myself.
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