Re: Common set of debconf templates

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

> > 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?


IIRC, a mess..:-)

and angry translators..