Bug#80347: PROPOSED] allow/document use of Debian Configuration management system (debconf)
Anthony Towns wrote:
> 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.
It's really no big deal, I can introduce a Provides: debconf-protocol-v3
if necessary. (Stupid versioned provides...) The current protocol is
flexible enough that basically anything except its broad form can be
changed w/o breaking things. The capb stuff is very useful here too.
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