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Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 22 Dec 2000 23:26:53 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 22 17:26:53 2000 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from kitenet.net [198.144.200.155] (postfix) by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 149baO-0006FN-00; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 17:26:52 -0600 Received: by kitenet.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2A811BC029; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 15:26:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 15:26:50 -0800 From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PROPOSED] allow/document use of Debian Configuration management system (debconf) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mail-Followup-To: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Rationale: 2.5% of debian packages[1] use debconf to prompt the user at install time, and this number is growing daily. The benefits of using debconf are briefly explained at http://kitenet.net/doc/debconf-doc/introduction.html; they include preconfiguration, (mostly) noninteractive installation, elimination of redundant prompting, consistency of user interface, etc. I feel that with this increasing number of packages using debconf, plus the existance of a nascent second implementation of the Debian configuration management system (cdebconf), and the stabalization of the protocol these things use, the time has finally come to reflect the use of these things in policy. Policy should document existing practice; existing practice is to use debconf or manually ask questions, with the latter perhaps eventually being phased out. So this proposal does not mandate the use of debconf, it merely mentions and condones it. This proposal also moves the spec defining the Debian configuration management system into policy, as a supporting document like the menu policy or mime policy. Or rather, it moves _most_ of it in. Unfortunatly, part of the full spec[2] -- the whole database backend -- is proving difficult to implement, and no implementation exists. I don't think dragging that into policy makes sense, before it is coded and in use. So when the proposal talks about the "Debian Configuration management specification", it is referring to an abridged version of that document. I attach such an abridged version in docbook XML format, to this message (as a tarball; there are several xml files and a text and html versions and other cruft. The Makefile and other similar cruft is not considered part of this proposal ;-). Proposal: --- tmp/policy.text Fri Dec 22 14:05:33 2000 +++ policy.text Fri Dec 22 14:05:24 2000 @@ -618,12 +618,47 @@ This means, amongst other things, using the `--quiet' option on `install-info'. + Errors which occur during the execution of an installation script + should be checked and the installation should not continue after an + error. + + Note, that Section 4.4, `Scripts', in general applies to package + maintainer scripts, too. + + You should not use `dpkg-divert' on a file belonging to another + package without consulting the maintainer of that package first. + + All packages which supply an instance of a common command name (or, in + general, filename) should generally use `update-alternatives', so that + they may be installed together. If `update-alternatives' is not used, + then each package must use `Conflicts' to ensure that other packages + are de-installed. (In this case, it may be appropriate to specify a + conflict against earlier versions of something that previously did not + use `update-alternatives' -- this is an exception to the usual rule + that this not allowed). + +2.3.9. Prompting in maintainer scripts +-------------------------------------- + + Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary. Prompting + may be accomplished by hand, or by communicating with a program, + such as debconf, which conforms to the Debian Configuration management + specification, version 2 or higher. (As defined in the file + <some filename> in the debian-policy package.) + + Packages which use the Debian Configuration management + specification may contain an additional `config' script and a + `templates' file in their control archive. The `config' script may + be run before the preinst, and before the package is unpacked or any of + its dependancies or pre-dependancies are satisfied, so it must work + using only the tools present in the base system. + Packages should try to minimize the amount of prompting they need to do, and they should ensure that the user will only ever be asked each question once. This means that packages should try to use appropriate shared configuration files (such as `/etc/papersize' and - `/etc/news/server'), rather than each prompting for their own list of - required pieces of information. + `/etc/news/server'), and shared debconf variables rather than each + prompting for their own list of required pieces of information. It also means that an upgrade should not ask the same questions again, unless the user has used `dpkg --purge' to remove the package's @@ -634,38 +669,19 @@ If a package has a vitally important piece of information to pass to the user (such as "don't run me as I am, you must edit the following configuration files first or you risk your system emitting - badly-formatted messages"), it should display this in the `postinst' - script and prompt the user to hit return to acknowledge the message. - Copyright messages do not count as vitally important (they belong in + badly-formatted messages"), it should display this in the `config' or + `postinst' script and prompt the user to hit return to acknowledge the + message. Copyright messages do not count as vitally important (they belong in `/usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright'); neither do instructions on how to use a program (these should be in on line documentation, where all the users can see them). Any necessary prompting should almost always be confined to the - post-installation script, and should be protected with a conditional + `config' script or the `postinst' script. If it is done in the + `postinst' it should be protected with a conditional so that unnecessary prompting doesn't happen if a package's installation fails and the `postinst' is called with `abort-upgrade', `abort-remove' or `abort-deconfigure'. - - Errors which occur during the execution of an installation script - should be checked and the installation should not continue after an - error. - - Note, that Section 4.4, `Scripts', in general applies to package - maintainer scripts, too. - - You should not use `dpkg-divert' on a file belonging to another - package without consulting the maintainer of that package first. - - All packages which supply an instance of a common command name (or, in - general, filename) should generally use `update-alternatives', so that - they may be installed together. 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Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of debian-policy, which has been installed in the Debian FTP archive: virtual-package-names-list.text byhand mime-policy.text.gz byhand debconf_specification.txt.gz byhand menu-policy.text.gz byhand debian-policy_3.5.0.0.dsc to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.5.0.0.dsc debian-policy_3.5.0.0_all.deb to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.5.0.0_all.deb libc6-migration.text byhand policy.pdf.gz byhand policy.text.gz byhand policy.html.tar.gz byhand policy.ps.gz byhand debian-policy_3.5.0.0.tar.gz to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.5.0.0.tar.gz A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org> (supplier of updated debian-policy package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600 Source: debian-policy Binary: debian-policy Architecture: source all Version: 3.5.0.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents Closes: 75925 79891 80342 80347 80506 82743 82966 83065 83438 83924 83960 Changes: debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low . * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and magnitude of changes since 3.2.1 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#83924 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743 * document the fact that x font utilities have moved to the package xutils, closes: Bug#82966 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks to Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> closes: Bug#83065 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts. closes: Bug#80506 Files: a67d23fb7762d8a103161ba852e7fcc4 715 doc optional debian-policy_3.5.0.0.dsc b6e154de198e86965d5613e3a3ee5c37 896813 doc optional debian-policy_3.5.0.0.tar.gz 5597cc0825983d16a33f2a6e1416a080 556408 doc optional debian-policy_3.5.0.0_all.deb 0a4814258588f5b53972f930cc06c1f4 62655 byhand - policy.text.gz 3ed7aa5a489834b24bb28ff377a34aa9 10982 byhand - libc6-migration.text 024b99798ab55c3884650b6d0d2ce10a 7785 byhand - virtual-package-names-list.text 1bc233b6f154b51baee0cbbe038c24d3 2180 byhand - menu-policy.text.gz 64991c1fbbc07210ccd228dbf9c1472c 1599 byhand - mime-policy.text.gz 085525117dd604aa20568aa4f0075426 121738 byhand - policy.ps.gz 57e39ff78174c2e034a35ce52c34e147 211032 byhand - policy.pdf.gz 2a502ad036dd193284b08e04dbc769dd 67359 byhand - policy.html.tar.gz 94c9e656c779bec8f534e6e05c2a0e06 6112 byhand - debconf_specification.txt.gz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6dPjzIbrau78kQkwRAfZYAJ4/uDBsYKCtb1xRJeHvh5MzQruThQCgsr0v zq/8hzQzFzCJ+S/FkXXa2IE= =vfb2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----