Bug#176506: Proposal seconded...though very late..:-)

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Well, I of course second this proposal, just being tracking down
packages who do not use debconf....

There seems to be very few of them, some with quite good reasons for
delaying the change (see #184979 for base-passwd).

At this time, I have found :

anacron (lazy maintainer ?)
base-passwd (good arguments so far !)
(kernel-package : quite different for this one. It generates packages which do not prompt via debconf)
php4 (Steve Langasek promises to work on it)

and one damn package who tests for a modem, for which I raised a
bug for (with a patch) and whose name I don't remember.. :-)

(if people are aware of other prompting-user-but-not-using-debconf
packages, please let me know)


I've not seen very much activity about this proposal in the last
months. Isn't the consensus achieved ?

Another argument for debconfization is i18n. Direct prompting in
postinst scripts is of course nearly impossible to translate.

I even wonder if a "should" for using gettext/po-debconf based debconf
templates shouldn't appear some day (maybe later ?).


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