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Re: Common set of debconf templates



On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 07:36:40AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> SHARED TEMPLATES
>        It's actually possible to have a template and a question that
>        are shared among a set of packages. All the packages have to
>        provide an identical copy of the template in their templates
                    ^^^^^^^^^
>        files. This can be useful if a bunch of packages need to ask
>        the same question, and you only want to bother the user with it
>        once. Shared templates are generally put in the shared/
>        pseudo-directory in the debconf tem- plate namespace.

What happens when the template changes in the template package but is
out of sync in the other packages?

-- 
Brian Sutherland



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