Another job for the QA team

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Hi,

I've got another job for you - I'm not able to fix it within hours
this time.

We should detect superflous {pre,post}{inst,rm} questions and ask the
maintainers to remove them.

Rationale:

  Debian GNU/Linux is already known as the one and only distribution
  that bothers the user with as many questions as it can.  This makes
  the installation of Debian somewhat painful and non-intactive.
  Although there is - theoretically - another sub-project that
  addresses non-interactive installations which should try to reduce
  user required input of data.

Here are two examples which I saw today:

 . Lynx

   Your homepage is http://www.(your domain)/

   The default as given by lynx looks proper for many cases.  Please
   simply use it.  People who want to change this should be able to
   edit the configuration file: dpkg -s lynx -> /etc/lynx.cfg

 . gom

   The postinst of gom has a postinst configuration script which
   contains 'if you're unsure or don't know... it's safe to quit'
   This indicates that the default configuration is proper for most of
   the cases.  Please don't ask but provide a gomconfig (haven't
   checked that yet)

Regards,

	Joey

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