Proposed src/configure.c Patch

[Cameron Katri <me@cameronkatri.com>]

Hello,

	I am helping write a GUI APT frontend and we wanted to add proper 
conffile support, preferably be providing our own GUI alert with the 
possible actions. I had realized that the best way to do that would be 
to add an option to DPKG that allows a custom program to be specified to 
be used instead of the default prompt when replacing conffiles. In 
src/configure.c, the function deferred_configure_conffiles() calls 
promptconfaction(). promptconfaction() runs the function show_prompt() 
and parses the result. My patch will modify promptconfaction() to 
execute an external program and parse the result of that instead of the 
show_prompt() function. However before I started writing anything I 
wanted to know if this is something that could be upstreamed, and if you 
have any ways to improve this idea.

Thank you,
Cameron Katri

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Cameron Katri
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