Bug#206684: debian-policy: Proposal for going ahead with mandatory debconf use for prompting

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:34:30PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would really like to see that happening at the beginning of the lenny
> release cycle. Packages that prompt without using debconf make it
> unnecessary difficult to test them using piuparts.
> 
> Looking at my piuparts results (testing packages in etch), most packages
> that prompt the user already do that through debconf, so it would not
> result in more than 50 or 100 bugs (and that's the worst case scenario).

We might need an exception for essential packages (e.g. glibc). Unless
they have to provide both a debconf and a tty interface.
 
Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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