Re: Bug#176506: Make debconf mandatory for prompting the user
Adam DiCarlo <aph@debian.org> writes:
> I'm willing to second the proposal as is, with the "must" directive.
I am afraid that would not fly, since the policy group has no
mandate to be able to do so.
> I do think there should be an impact analysis done, a quick one: how
> many packages in main do interactive prompting?
Three of my 16 packages do so, for what it is worth.
> I'm personally not afraid of making 30% of packages suddenly buggy if
> that's what it takes to make Debian better... Its not like the debconf
> infrastructure is untried ...
Well, I would be amenable to making it the default (or
should) option.
manoj
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