Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:22:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>
> > And thanks to this stupid MUST thing in policy everyone's wasting their
> > time trying to figure out how to force people to do things, instead of
> > making sure that there's absolutely no reason why they wouldn't want to.
>
> Trouble is, when the maintainer really is being wierd there's not much
> you can do about it so people wind up wanting to find a big stick to use
> to try to get through to them. Assuming people are going to do the
> sensible thing doesn't always work.
Inasmuch as that is true, we're doomed anyway, policy or no policy.
Britton
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