Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze
Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com> writes:
> Here's an updated patch to apply the following wording:
>
> 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.
>
> Packages which are essential, or which are dependencies of
> essential packages, may fall back on another prompting method if
> no such interface is available when they are executed.
Seconded.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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