Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:29:35PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 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)
libc6.preinst does have a fallback in the case that debconf is unavailable
during an upgrade. Policy should not forbid that usage in the case of
essential packages that need to prompt.
(libpam-modules also prompts in preinst, but manages to avoid the need for a
fallback and simply Pre-Depends on debconf.)
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