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Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?



Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it> writes:

> I wrote an automatic installer (which worked) for slink, but I had to
> spend weeks to adapt the postinst scripts of debian packages to it,
> and I didn't want to repeat all the work for potato and woody.

This was my experience, too.

> In my opinion now that we have debconf we should mandate its use by
> policy.

I think that would be a good idea.



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