On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:29:35PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:46:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> writes:
> > > sadly this didden happen in 2003-2009, but I'd like this to become a > > > reality for our next release sometime in 2010 or hopefully not 2011 ;-) > > > Any takers? (To propose this as a release goal & bringing this into > > > policy.) > > This was one of the things that I was hoping to get into the next release > > of Policy, so I'm definitely in favor. > Is there actually packages that does not use debconf ? > Should we draft an exception for the few situation where debconf is > unavailable > ? (e.g. dpkg and glibc before debconf is installed) libc6.preinst does have a fallback in the case that debconf is unavailable during an upgrade. Policy should not forbid that usage in the case of essential packages that need to prompt. (libpam-modules also prompts in preinst, but manages to avoid the need for a fallback and simply Pre-Depends on debconf.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
