Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze

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

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:46:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> writes:
> 
> > sadly this didden happen in 2003-2009, but I'd like this to become a
> > reality for our next release sometime in 2010 or hopefully not 2011 ;-)
> >
> > Any takers? (To propose this as a release goal & bringing this into policy.)
> 
> This was one of the things that I was hoping to get into the next release
> of Policy, so I'm definitely in favor.

Is there actually packages that does not use debconf ? 
Should we draft an exception for the few situation where debconf is unavailable
? (e.g. dpkg and glibc before debconf is installed)

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here.