Re: Private-only debconf templates for preseeding

2009-01-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > IMO the use you describe can be valid in particular cases. > > One example would be when the setting is intended to only influence > behavior of the maintainer scripts during installation of the package as > part of system installation using Debian Insta

Re: Private-only debconf templates for preseeding

2009-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
Russ Allbery wrote: > My initial reaction was that anything that's worth making available for > configuration via preseeding is worth a low-priority debconf prompt, and > that having preseeding be the only interface is a weird way to use > debconf. IMO the use you describe can be valid in particul

Re: Private-only debconf templates for preseeding

2009-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 07:25:03PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hello everyone, > The background for this question is Lintian Bug#492626. > There are several packages in the archive that use private debconf > templates where the only interface to them is preseeding. Examples > include the readah