Hi,
On Donnerstag, 19. März 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary.
> > Prompting must be done by communicating through a program, such
> > as debconf, which conforms to the Debian Configuration
> > Management Specification, version 2 or higher, unless no such
> > interface is available when they are executed.
Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary.
Prompting must be done by communicating through a program, such
as debconf, which conforms to the Debian Configuration
Management Specification, version 2 or higher. Exempted from using
such a programm are required/essential packages if no such
interface is available when they are executed.
> Should we require that non-essential packages depend on debconf if they're
> going to do prompting? That wording implies to me that any package could
> check whether it was already installed (without a dependency) and fall
> back on non-debconf prompting, but I think that should only be permissible
> for essential packages.
See the proposal above.
> 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?
As we require it for any prompting, this includes preinst, and as stuff used
in preinst needs to be a Pre-Depends, I think this is clear.
regards,
Holger
P.S. Andrew, thanks!
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