On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 01:41:23PM -0500, Misha Koshelev wrote: > Sorry I've read all your emails but I'm a little slow on the uptake.
No problem - nobody will ask you for speeding up. > ... > http://da2i.univ-lille1.fr/cgi-bin/man/man2html?debconf-devel+7 > http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man7/debconf-devel.7.html > "Note that if your package???s sole use of debconf is in the postrm, you > should make your package???s postinst source > /usr/share/debconf/confmodule, to give debconf a chance to load up your > templates file into its database. Then the templates will be available > when your package is being purged." > This implies it's okay to have sole use of debconf be in postrm. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg37547.html > "If you use debconf, you should really ask that question when the package > is removed, not when its conffiles are purged, though you may only want > to delete the database files on purge. The rationale for this is that > there is no mechanism in place to guarantee that a certain other > package, in this instance debconf, is installed at purge time (though > the assumption may be fairly safe). The least bad solution I can see is > to ask at remove time, store the result outside of debconf > (/etc/default) and kill the db on purge if requested." > This also implies its okay to ask at remove time, whether on remove or purge. In principle I would agree that finally it makes more sense to ask the question if you are about to remove something and not an undetermined time in advance (install time). > But the Debian Policy Manual seems definitive it is _not_ okay so I'll > go with that: > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-maintscriptprompt > "Any necessary prompting should almost always be confined to the > config or postinst script." > (and postrm is not mentioned) In my mail recommended the policy conform solution. However, I think policy should not be a law if it makes sense to follow other precedences. So if you prefer to ask in *rm script rather than at config time I would not veto this. There is no point in blindly following some rules if an exception makes sense. Kind regards and thanks for your intensive research Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
