On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:15:36AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Justin Pryzby] > > Based on my understanding of the situation, an old version of GPM had > > a conffile, which is now a UCF-handled configuration file, no? If > > this is correct, I propose that GPM should parse any existing > > conffile, and determine all the values it sets, and store those > > values via debconf. This should happen in preinst, I think. Then, > > in the configure stage, it should prompt the user for any unset > > values. In postinst, it should use UCF to create a _new_ > > configuration. > > In fact, this is *exactly* what gpm does. > Have you got any other bright ideas? Then why does it prompt me? Does prerm remove the conffile after parsing it?
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