hi russ, On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 06:58:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > It's definitely worth talking about if the draft database policy says > something else, as it appears to. My rationale is that the package setup having re-read it yesterday i don't think that's the intention for it to say something different. from 1.4.2: For packages providing automated assistance, database installation/configuration should be considered as part of the package installation process. A failure to install a database should be considered a failure to install the package and should result in an error value returned by the relevant maintainer script. it does, however, additionally stipulates that there should be an "opt out" (1.4.1) option which does nothing and successfully configures the package. note that this was written quite a while ago, when policy itself was pretty inconsistant on the use of "installation" vs. "configuration" and shares the same ambiguity here. sean
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