Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:

> Is there actually packages that does not use debconf ?

I'm not sure how many of these were false positives, but I'm fairly sure
that at least some of them are real:

http://lintian.debian.org/tags/read-in-maintainer-script.html

> Should we draft an exception for the few situation where debconf is
> unavailable ? (e.g. dpkg and glibc before debconf is installed)

Yes.  I think there was some sort of essential package exception discussed
earlier in the bug (although even essential packages should try debconf
first and fall back if it's not available, I think).

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>