Re: Bug#176506: stalled debconf proposal
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:10:23PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.
>
I second this proposal, too
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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