On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 11:41:06 +0200 Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> Hi Neil, > > applause, thanks & good luck to making grip official! :-) > just one tiny comment: > > On Sonntag, 7. August 2011, Neil Williams wrote: > > 9.8 Keyboard configuration - Note that many Emdebian devices will not > > have a keyboard of any kind (except on-screen after installation), so > > packages should not use methods that prevent the use of a serial > > console or network console or use methods that rely on a physical > > keyboard. > > I think this is unneeded, packages must prompt via debconf already and I > cannot see where a package(s maintainer scripts) would expect a keyboard to > be > existent. It's not just the maintainer scripts, it is potentially runtime processes as well. However, I think you are right. This section was added as a precaution, it needs to be a piece of documentation rather than Policy. Debian Policy is quite explicit about what packages need to do with keyboards but, on re-reading 9.8, it is much more about the runtime behaviour of terminals rather than relying on a keyboard as an ever-present method of operation. Thanks for spotting that one. I've moved that into a note on the wiki. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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