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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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