severity 80347 normal
retitle 80347 [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration management system (debconf)
thanks
This proposal's been seconded by myself and Raul since the 26th, documents
existing practice, and hasn't generated any particular objections,
so presumably the discussion is more or less over and it can be marked
accepted any time. I was about to do that here, but one last thing...
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 12:08:56AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.
What, if anything do you want to do about this? If we're going to support
cdebconf (or a new debconf-tiny/debconf-base) for woody, it probably
needs to be done.
Cheers,
aj
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