Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze
On Wed, Mar 18 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The only other thing that I'm not sure about is what to do about preinst
> scripts. Are we requiring debconf for preinst prompting (and hence
> requiring a Pre-Depends) for non-essential packages?
Why should debconf be treated any differently than any other
program being used in the pre-inst? I think if a package uses debconf
in the preinst, it pre-depends on debconf.
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).
manoj
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