Bug#176506: Make debconf mandatory for prompting the user

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:31:59PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Adrian Bunk writes ("Bug#176506: Make debconf mandatory for prompting the user"):
> ...
> > The problem is that within the rules of your policy every single of your 
> > over thousand maintainers can decide how he wants to maintain his 
> > packages. Currently a maintainer can simply refuse to use debconf and 
> > _noone_ can force him to use debconf. There are bugs with patches like 
> > e.g. #127961 that are already ignored for a year or longer.
> 
> This is, of course, not true.  The Technical Committee can overrule a
> maintainer.  Although, I think in this case it would be better to make

Yes, sorry, I forgot about the Technical Committee.

> a general rule in policy than to individually refer zillions of bug
> reports to the TC.

Yes, agreed.

> Ian.

cu
Adrian

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