Re: Bug#195481: fragmented location info: hassle for users especially mobile ones
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 03:56:13PM -0700, David Nusinow wrote:
> A few people were discussing the need for sharing of debconf templates
> on #debian-devel on freenode the other day/night. The example that came
> up at the time was for newsreaders, and how 10 different newsreaders
> shouldn't all ask the same quesions (what is your news server, etc.).
Uh, I'm not sure this is a good example. Hasn't shared/news/server
existed for years? Both the newsreaders I maintain use it and have done
so since at least May 2000 and December 2001 respectively. That template
name was already well-established then.
> There needs to be some standard questions in the shared namespace for
> all these programs to use and draw upon. What we cursorily came up with
> is that the various maintainers that need the template, in this case
> newsreader maintainers, would reach a consensus on -devel about a
> template, which would then be put in to the shared namespace. This
> would have to be documented somewhere central, for later reference. We
> all agreed that it should be on the web, but there was debate about
> whether or not a list should be included in one of the debconf
> packages, or perhaps some other package.
I agree that better use of the shared namespace would be an improvement:
I'd suggest /etc/mailname management as an example of something that's
ad-hoc at the moment. debconf-doc seems like the correct package in
which to put a registry.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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