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

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> writes:

>         Also, there is the funny case of config scripts; these are run
>  even before preinst, and before any pre-dependencies are installed. And
>  yet, these scripts are often used to prompt using debconf; they must be
>  no-ops if debconf is not yet installed (they get re-run later, I
>  think). 

Yeah, they're run via debconf's integration with the rest of the packaging
system as I understand it, and are automatically run at postinst time
before the postinst if they weren't run previously.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>