I've send to the wrong adress, here it is to the list again: Thanks Matt Zimmermann for your kind and reassuring answers.
For a summary see his answers. I couldn't express better. I'm planning to use debconf as soon as it has settled somewhat. Open are the questions: - How to find out that debconf is installed and usable? - Is it ok to put low priority messages to stdout without a prompt? thanks, greetings, martin ------------------------------------------------------- this is the (off list) continuation: On Friday, 23. March 2001 22:28, Matt Zimmermann wrote: > (did you intentionally take this off the debian-mentors list? If > not, please send your reply there) > > > I'm planning to use debconf as soon as it has settled somewhat. > > The interface used in the maintainer scripts and the template format > have both been stable for some time now. There are already Priority: > required packages using it (console-tools and console-data). > > > Open are the questions: > > - How to find out that debconf is installed and usable? > > Just declare Depends: debconf in the control file, and debconf will > be guaranteed to be available when your package is configured. > > > - Is it ok to put low priority messages to stdout without a > > prompt? > > If you really want to do it this way, yes, it should be fine. > However, during a large upgrade, the chances of the user seeing it > are quite low, so if any action might be required on the user's part, > I would recommend displaying the message using debconf. sorry, thanks, greetings, martin
