* Torsten Landschoff <[email protected]> [20090621 15:22]: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:08:57PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> > It's a completely fresh installation. A basic chroot without any > > ddclient configuration/installations so far (neither an package > > upgrade nor any existing debconf settings present) and running > > 'DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y install ddclient' then. > Okay, so the result is no wonder as that mode of installation is not > currently taken into account for the maintainer scripts. > I am not sure if it is required by policy that this installation mode > should work. It would surely be nice if it could cope but I am not sure > how to implement that. "3.9.1 Prompting in maintainer scripts" http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-maintscriptprompt http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/debconf_specification.html says: | Finally there is an option to simply skip all questions, so it | becomes possible to do automatic configuration using default values | or values that are downloaded into the database from a remote | location. Disclaimer: yes, this isn't *that* explicit with regards to this issue (though IIRC there's some more specific information/policy available somewhere, I just don't find it right now). All the >2500 packages I'm testing on a daily base work just fine and as expected and I'm pretty sure that's the way it's supposed to work. > Any idea how that should work out? I guess I should detect that the > question was skipped and just pretend that the user did not want to > run ddclient. But this way the package will look like it was configured > while it in fact does not have a config file. Hm, what about just assuming/taking a sane default value? AFAIK it's just fine if users who install a package with accepting/taking the defaults get what the package maintainer provides as a default. For different configuration needs a 'dpkg-reconfigure ddclient' is still an option. regards, -mika-
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