On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 10:34:15PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Probably packages that use debconf would be well server by having
> > a Pre-Depends: on something like debconf-2.2 so they can rely on
> > a particular version of the protocol being available, however it's
> > implemented (debconf, cdebconf), and so that we can phase early, crufty
> > protocol versions out, if only by moving them to a debconf-compat package
> > in extra somewhere, or similar.
> Packages should depend on the version of debconf that implements the
> protocol they need.
Versioned provides won't be available for a while (they completely break
apt 0.3, not sure if apt 0.4 supports them), so that'll break cdebconf,
and mean the only possible implementation of the `Debian Configuration
management specification' is debconf. And, again, it limits how well we
can manage to cope with old debs if old versions of the debconf protocol
ever get deprecated.
Cheers,
aj
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