Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
>...
> If you want every package to use debconf, that's fine and wonderful. Go
> make a list of the ones that don't, write patches so that they will, file
> bugs so the maintainer knows about them, then have a friendly discussion
> with the maintainers to make sure that they're satisfied with the patches.
Let me compare two cases:
- a package has it's documentation in /usr/doc
- the maintainer gets a patch how to change it
- the maintainer refuses the patch "I want to have the documentation in
/usr/doc."
- a package doesn't use debconf for interaction with the user while
asking the user questions at installation time
- the maintainer gets a patch how to change it
- the maintainer refuses the patch "I don't want to use debconf."
I don't get the point why it's all right to send a RC bug report in the
first case but not in the second case.
> Cheers,
> aj
cu
Adrian
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