Re: Call for seconds: Policy modifications

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Zed Pobre <zed@moebius.interdestination.com> wrote:
...
> to:
> 
>   If a package has a vitally important piece of information to pass to
>   the user (such as "don't run me as I am, you must edit the following
>   configuration files first or you risk your system emitting
>   badly-formatted messages"), it should display this in the postinst
>   script and prompt the user to hit return to acknowledge the
>   message. Copyright messages do not count as vitally important (they
>   belong in /usr/doc/<package-name>/copyright); neither do instructions
>   on how to use a program (these should be in on line documentation,
>   where all the users can see them).

I think that any information worty of displaying in a package's postinst
(aside from prompts) should also appear in the package's description.

Any counter examples?

-- 
Raul