I have a packaging question about the use of debconf. I have a package that I want to change to use debconf with. I have the impression (although the documentation doesn't say so) that the normal way to use debconf is to have a "config" file that does the interaction, then convert the contents of the debconf database to an ordinary config file, and finally to use the config file.
It seems to me that it would be far simpler to just change my scripts to refer to use db_get and not worry about formatting a config file. In particular, I only need the configuration information in an "/etc/init.d/" file (and perhaps later in a similar "/etc/apm/events.d/" file), and it's easy enough to access db_get from there. Any reason not to do this?
