Il mer, 2002-11-27 alle 09:53, Andreas Tille ha scritto: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > > > Sure, that's the way (by now) the shared template works. debconf-devel(7) > > says: > > > > SHARED TEMPLATES > > It's actually possible to have a template and a question that are > > shared among a set of packages. All the packages have to provide > > an identical copy of the template in their tem- plates files. This can > > be useful if a bunch of packages need to ask the same question, and > > you only want to bother the user with it once. Shared templates are > > generally put in the shared/ pseudo-directory in the debconf template > > namespace. > > > > The same man page shows an example too in the next sections, under `Choosing > > among related packages'. > In my opinion this is broken. Every single zope product package depends > from Zope. So there is no need to duplicate the templates - even if > the paragraph about SHARED TEMPLATES says so. I would favour a more > sane solution which avoids insane duplication of information which will > cause problems with old versions. the paragraph says "possibile to have", it is not even a recomendation. imo, a package can use a value in the debconf database *if* it depends on the package providing that question/value. maybe this is not policy but seems good to me.
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