Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: > 2010/1/25 Luk Claes <l...@debian.org>: >>> I was under the idea that prompting during a purge should not rely on >>> debconf being available. Isn't that right? Maybe I'm not up to date. >> You're right on one thing: purge should not fail when debconf is not >> available. > > So if Debconf is not available it could prompt through a non-debconf > mechanism but if Debconf is available it should use a debconf-based > mechanism. Is that the way forward? > > I would like to have the same end-result when purging whether debconf > is available or not.
Yes, that's they way forward: use debconf and fall back to a non-debconf mechanism when it's not available on purge. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
