Policy on debconf options
I'm not sure whether this should be a policy bit (probably not) or a
developer's ref manual thing. And since I don't know how the docs
have been reorganized or what the plan is, I don't want to say. So
it's a proposal for whichever doc it most belongs in, but I think it
belongs somewhere.
I've seen two bugs recently, one in realplayer, and one in
zephyr-clients, where the bug arose because I use debconf with a
"critical" threshhold. The developers tested the install with a
different threshhold. Temporarily adjusting the threshhold for the
install of the affected packages works around the bugs.
I think it would be nice to explicitly suggest/require that
installation of debconf'd packages be tested against at least the
extremes of "low" and "critical" threshholds, and also maybe with the
noninteractive frontend.
Thomas
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