Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:55 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
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> Packages that are essential or that are dependencies of essential
> packages may fall back on another prompting method if no such
> interface is available when they are executed.
Since we're essentially saying that all packages must support debconf,
why bother restricting the set of packages which are allowed to provide
a fallback?
>From a maintainer's POV surely they will only be working to provide a
fallback if they desire their package to be installable when debconf is
not available. I don't think we should second-guess their reasons for
doing so.
Our motivation here should be simply to ensure that all packages support
debconf (or a future replacement), not to over-control what they can do
in addition to that.
Cheers,
Andrew.
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