Re: Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, sean finney wrote:
> hi raphael,
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 08:10:21AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, sean finney wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:29:35PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > > Is there actually packages that does not use debconf ?
> > >
> > > dpkg...
> >
> > Not anymore, no. There's no prompting in any of the dpkg's maintainer
> > scripts.
>
> dpkg still prompts for input on conffile changes.
Oh, right. I agree that we should aim to fix this as well but it's not
especially relevant in this -policy discussion.
I hope Guillem will work out something based on your patches in the
squeeze timeframe.
That said, while it can improve the user-interface in the interactive
part, none of the solutions up to now include code to pre-answer all the
configuration files questions. But it should be doable in most cases as
the conffiles should not change between the start of the apt run and
the postinst. Exactly like we extract config files, we could extract the
conffiles and pre-ask all the relevant questions.
Cheers,
--
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