On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 03:56:13PM -0700, David Nusinow wrote: > A few people were discussing the need for sharing of debconf templates > on #debian-devel on freenode the other day/night. The example that came > up at the time was for newsreaders, and how 10 different newsreaders > shouldn't all ask the same quesions (what is your news server, etc.).
Uh, I'm not sure this is a good example. Hasn't shared/news/server existed for years? Both the newsreaders I maintain use it and have done so since at least May 2000 and December 2001 respectively. That template name was already well-established then. > There needs to be some standard questions in the shared namespace for > all these programs to use and draw upon. What we cursorily came up with > is that the various maintainers that need the template, in this case > newsreader maintainers, would reach a consensus on -devel about a > template, which would then be put in to the shared namespace. This > would have to be documented somewhere central, for later reference. We > all agreed that it should be on the web, but there was debate about > whether or not a list should be included in one of the debconf > packages, or perhaps some other package. I agree that better use of the shared namespace would be an improvement: I'd suggest /etc/mailname management as an example of something that's ad-hoc at the moment. debconf-doc seems like the correct package in which to put a registry. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
