Re: debconf in preinst and postinst?

[Itai Zukerman <zukerman@math-hat.com>]

Je Mon, 28 May 2001 14:03:14 -0400,
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> scribis:
> When possible, packages should use the config script, and only the
> config script to interact with the user, since using debconf to ask
> questions in other scripts will result in the install pausing in the
> middle to ask the question.

So, what's the recommended way to generate output in a postinst that
uses debconf?

For example: "Starting operation that may take a few minutes..."

Just "echo Starting..." interferes with debconf, so I've been doing
either 1) db_stop first; or 2) "echo Starting... 1>&2".  Or, is there
some debconf way to do it?

-itai