Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?
Anthony Towns wrote:
> If debconf isn't good enough that everyone's not using it voluntarily
> (lilo has been converted *from* debconf), then the obvious thing to do
> is to improve debconf, not try to force everyone to make their packages
> worse.
IIRC, the problem with lilo and debconf had little to do with debconf
per se and was mainly that the new lilo configurator was very ambitious
and broke a lot of systems.
> Joey has yet more significant debconf changes waiting in the wings for
> after woody's release iirc, too.
Only better integration with dpkg and maybe a sql database driver some
day. And perhaps sometime making it communicate with scripts via
something other than stdio.
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see shy jo
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