On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tim Cutts wrote:

> Package: pine
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> The package built by this source package does not use debconf to ask its
> questions.  The result is that (a) it overwrites the /etc/news/servers
> and /etc/mailname files which are configured with debconf elsewhere
> (say, by slrn or exim) and more seriously (b) it makes it impossible for
> the resulting package to be installed using FAI, since the fully
> automated install stops to ask the questions.
> 
> I have modified the source package to build a pine package which uses
> debconf, and the patch is attached.

Thanks a lot for the patch. I will consider it for the next upload,
but I have to look at it carefully first, as I have not had time to
learn about debconf yet.

Would you have some good ideas to fix Bug#213260 as well?


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