On 01-May-2001 Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently debconfizing one of my packages, uptimed. Two quoestions > have arised: > > - At the start of my config script, I import all settings from the real > configuration file, if it exists. For some settings, this is trivial, > for some, I need rather complex text processing. Since perl isn't > essential, writing the script in perl would make the package depend on > perl while this is unnecessary for normal operation. Would this be > acceptable or should I find a better solution? > > - One of the strings should default to the empty string. How do I express > that in a templates file? >
If you use debconf you are using perl (-: of course awk is your friend and mine.
