Bas Wijnen wrote: > The proposed solution is to add functionality to debconf, which can read > and edit config files.
debconf already contains this functionality. It's called a config script. Packages that do not use the config script to read their config files before using debconf to ask questions are buggy, yes. > A problem with this is that debconf will need to know the file format of > the config file. A config script is a completely general solution to that problem. -- see shy jo
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