Reinier Haasjes <rein...@haasjes.com> writes: > I'm trying to solve bug #561324 which uses it's own binary in the config > script.
> It uses it's own binary to get some information (tunnel id) which uses > login+password to retrieve, it really needs this to compile a good > config script (if you have more than 1 tunnel). > My idea on solving this is to move the complete config script to > postinst and ask all the question there. I read everywhere that this is > not the preferred way to go but I can't discover if it is prohibited by > the policy. > Is it prohibited by the policy to ask questions in the postinst-script? No. You want to avoid it where possible because it breaks pre-configuration, which is why Lintian warns about it. The person installing the package will get asked questions during the installation rather than being asked all questions up-front for the full installation run. But sometimes it's unavoidable. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
