Bug#690390: debconf: Use config file defaults instead of cache

2012-10-14 Thread Bas Wijnen
First of all, I'm happy that we agree on the way things are supposed to work. However, I think you slightly misunderstood my proposal. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 01:27:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Bas Wijnen wrote: > > The proposed solution is to add functionality to debconf, which can read > > and

Bug#690390: debconf: Use config file defaults instead of cache

2012-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Bas Wijnen wrote: > The proposed solution is to add functionality to debconf, which can read > and edit config files. debconf already contains this functionality. It's called a config script. Packages that do not use the config script to read their config files before using debconf to ask questio

Bug#690390: debconf: Use config file defaults instead of cache

2012-10-13 Thread Bas Wijnen
Package: debconf Version: 1.5.46 Severity: wishlist Several bugs (for example #684923 and #476946) complain that packages are using debconf as a registry while it is not. At the Utrecht BSP[1], we discussed about this and have the following suggestion to improve debconf, which would fix bugs like