On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:23:36AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > show to people. If you would like to try out debconf, simply add this line > to /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/ debconf/ > > There are a few packages in there modified to use debconf. Good examples > include slrn, slrnpull, and sash. When you install these packages, they will > use dialog (by default) to ask the questions they need to ask.
FYI, sash_3.3-5 (which has been sitting in Incoming for the last couple weeks) no longer prompts at postinst time, as the postinst/prerm scripts have been completely redesigned. This simplifies a variety of installation issues. And, given sash's niche as a brute-force-simple program that's supposed to work under very degraded conditions, I think that simple installation (and removal) is important. However, I'm very glad to see debconf, and hope to take a look at it soon. -- Raul
