Bug#225833: Letter vs A4 again

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:25:23AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> On Wed, 17 May 2006 07:46:04 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 
> > Something like, on first installation, or debconf question "Should
> > xdvi/... respect /etc/papersize" with an appropriate file in
> > /etc/libpaper.d in such a case:
> 
> Policy claims;
>      implies that the default version will be part of the package
>      distribution, and must not be modified by the maintainer scripts
>      during installation (or at any other time).
> 
> First of all, I'm a bit uncertain if it is possible to do this 
> without policy violation.

But isn't that what debconf is all about?  We give the maintainer the
option of having the paper size managed by paperconfig; they can take
this option or leave it.

As you imply, though, we must check whether they have changed anything
in the interim before responding to a paperconfig change.

   Julian