Bug#184979: base-passwd: Please use debconf if available

2014-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 08:53:51PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I've been taking a look at this bug because I care a lot about #581899 > getting fixed. I've reviewed the bug logs of both this bug and #143437. Thanks for looking at this! Note, in case it helps and I haven't already mentioned it,

Bug#184979: base-passwd: Please use debconf if available

2014-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Colin Watson writes: > FYI, I probably won't accept a simple postinst patch. I don't think > simply switching from manual prompting to debconf prompting with no > other UI changes is particularly valuable in this case: the question is > qualitatively different every time, so it can't just be answ