Regis Boudin wrote: > * debconf/frontend: debconf and cdebconf have different names for the > frontends (Readline, Dialog, Gnome, versus text, newt, gtk), which causes > all sorts of issues for the transition. Any objection to using > cdebconf/frontend instead ?
Not really, but the rest of d-i would need to be checked for uses of it. > * When switching from debconf to cdebconf, there is the problem of the > database. One uses /var/cache/debconf, the other /var/lib/cdebconf by > default, meaning either it has to be migrated, or cdebconf will have to > use /var/cache/debconf. The main issue of migrating the database is in > the case of a system wide upgrade where cdebconf would actually replace > debconf. Between the package being unpacked and the postinst script being > run, the database will be unconfigured ; so any other package trying to > use debconf in this interval won't have access to the previously set > values. This includes triggers, e.g. in the man-db postinst. > Do you have any opinion in the long term ? In the short term, I could > include the migration script for people willing to test, but I would like > someone else's view on it before I do it. I can see no way around debconf and cdebconf using the same database, perhaps a preinst would need to move it and set up a symlink so debconf still sees it? -- see shy jo
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