Re: Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
They are not executed (before the install starts) if debconf is not installed.
Hence I'm not sure if it's important to mention that they should be no-ops
if debconf is not installed.
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