I'm not sure whether this should be a policy bit (probably not) or a developer's ref manual thing. And since I don't know how the docs have been reorganized or what the plan is, I don't want to say. So it's a proposal for whichever doc it most belongs in, but I think it belongs somewhere.
I've seen two bugs recently, one in realplayer, and one in zephyr-clients, where the bug arose because I use debconf with a "critical" threshhold. The developers tested the install with a different threshhold. Temporarily adjusting the threshhold for the install of the affected packages works around the bugs. I think it would be nice to explicitly suggest/require that installation of debconf'd packages be tested against at least the extremes of "low" and "critical" threshholds, and also maybe with the noninteractive frontend. Thomas
