Bug#184507: 2.3.9.1 grammar
>> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 02:06:20 -0800,
>> Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org> said:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:12:12PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Chris Waters wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:06:05PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote:
> --- policy.sgml~ 2003-03-13 02:02:23.000000000 -0800
> +++ policy.sgml 2003-03-13 02:01:43.000000000 -0800
> @@ -1083,11 +1083,13 @@
heading> Prompting in maintainer scripts</heading>
p>
> Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if
> - necessary. Prompting may be accomplished by hand, or by
> - communicating with a program, such as
> - <prgn>debconf</prgn>, which conforms to the Debian
> - Configuration management specification, version 2 or
> - higher. These are included in the
> + necessary. Prompting may be accomplished by writing to
> + standard output and reading from standard input, but
> + this technique is deprecated.
This is not an adequate replacement for "by hand". What if I
pop up an dialog box on detection of X? By hand is sufficiently
vague to be all inclusive.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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