Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:48:52AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:56:51AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > > And is the overwhelming majority of interactive scripts that _do_ use
> > > debconf already not a huge enough amount?
>
> > No, it's not "current practice" to use debconf when a bunch of important
> > packages specifically don't use it.
>
> Which ones? The only one I can think of is LILO which appeared to have
> less to do with debconf than with the maintainer getting flamed to death
> for trashing everyone's configuration.
AFAIK Exim doesn't use debconf (although as soon as I can find time to learn
debconf, a bug+patch will be filed - I want Exim non-interactive).
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