As far as I can see, this proposal has one conditional second (from aph
pending an impact study), and some discussion, and has been stalled
since mid-January. It also looks to me, from reading the thread, that
we have an easy consensus on just changing policy to upgrade the
suggestion to use debconf from a "may" to a "should", and holding off on
making it a "must" until later. Which seems better than nothing. Shall
we then amend it as follows, just to get some forward progress and
document current practice?
Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary.
Prompting should be done by communicating with a program, such as
`debconf', which conforms to the Debian Configuration management
specification, version 2 or higher. Prompting the user by other
means, such as by hand, is now deprecated.
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