Simon Richter wrote: > I'm currently debconfizing one of my packages, uptimed. Two quoestions > have arised:
That's "debconfiscated"[1]. > - 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? But perl-base _is_ essential. > - One of the strings should default to the empty string. How do I express > that in a templates file? "Default:" -- see shy jo [1] All your interactive postinsts are belong to us.