Bug#176506: Make debconf mandatory for prompting the user

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

Moin Adrian!
Adrian Bunk schrieb am Thursday, den 16. January 2003:

> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:10:28AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Your policy says:

"Your" is good, I still consider you as a persion involved in _our_
project.

> debian-devel is important for finding Debian developer supporting my 
> proposal.

I agree with you. There is some cruft that should be fixed,
once and forever. Some maintainers are lazy or ignorant when it comes to
such "trivial problems".

> 2.3.9.1. Prompting in maintainer scripts
> ----------------------------------------
> 
>      Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary.
>      Prompting must be done through programs like `debconf' that
>      conform to the Debian Configuration management specification,
>      version 2 or higher.
> 
>      The only exception to this rule are essential packages.
>      Essential packages must check whether the debconf language 
>      interface is available and use it if available.

On initial installation, package should avoid asking debconf
questions and detect settings automaticaly if the future function of the
machine is known and supported by one of our subprojects or other common
settings defined by base-installation applications (eg. correct
settings based on location/country and prefered language). Essential
settings are stored in the file /etc/system-profiles (one keyword per
line), less important settings in the debconf datasets of important
packages.

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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