Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.17
Severity: wishlist
This is part of the long term mass bug filing for cross build support:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/11/msg00116.html
No patch this time, as I'm not sure how debconf would actually fit these
changes into the Debian package.
Emdebian is using cdebconf and removing perl from 'Essential' so there
is no place for debconf as-is. Unfortunately, cdebconf is not complete
when used alone; two problems exist.
1. cdebconf wants /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
2. cdebconf does not initialise the debconf template database.
Emdebian is working around this by creating a 'debconf-shell' package
that includes:
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 ./usr/share/debconf/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 2577 ./usr/share/debconf/confmodule
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 1844 ./usr/share/debconf/demo
-rw-r--r-- root/root 5174 ./usr/share/debconf/demo.templates
Described as:
Package: debconf-shell
Source: debconf
Version: 1.5.17em1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Debconf Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Installed-Size: 48
Depends: cdebconf
Section: devel
Priority: extra
Description: debconf confmodule shell library
This package contains the usr/share/debconf/confmodule shell
library to retrieve debconf values without perl.
.
It also bypasses the DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF
environment variable which can be problematic
during installations.
(You can ignore the em1 suffix to the version string, that just helps
Emdebian separate our packages from Debian test builds from the same
source.)
Note that Emdebian does not use 'Essential:' at all and I have no
preference for whether this package should be essential - Emdebian will
throw away the 'Essential:' tag anyway. However, if this new package
were to become the home of /usr/share/debconf/confmodule in Debian
(as would probably be necessary), it would probably need the same
Priority etc. as debconf itself.
I am using this postinst for debconf-shell:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
if [ "$1" = configure ]; then
export DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF=true
# emdebian initialise database with demo templates.
/usr/lib/cdebconf/debconf-loadtemplate /usr/share/debconf/demo
/usr/share/debconf/demo.templates
fi
#DEBHELPER#
This works for us. (TM)
:-)
The demo template produces a bit of unwanted output so there may be a
smoother way of initialising the template database without output and
that would be useful.
I was also wondering if this could be a new *source* package as well as
a new binary because then Emdebian would not need to patch out 90% of
the existing debconf debian/* content to build debconf-shell. (why
cross-build perl to cross-build debconf when Emdebian won't be using
either perl or debconf?)
Alternatively, maybe these changes need to be migrated from debconf into
cdebconf? (One less package for me to cross build.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii debconf-i18n 1.5.17 full internationalization support
ii perl-base 5.8.8-11.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii apt-utils 0.7.9 APT utility programs
-- debconf information:
debconf-apt-progress/title:
debconf-apt-progress/info:
* debconf/priority: medium
debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
debconf-apt-progress/media-change:
* debconf/frontend: Gnome
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