On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:58:26PM +0100, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote: > In my opinion now that we have debconf we should mandate its use by > policy.
No. We. Should. Not. If you want every package to use debconf, that's fine and wonderful. Go make a list of the ones that don't, write patches so that they will, file bugs so the maintainer knows about them, then have a friendly discussion with the maintainers to make sure that they're satisfied with the patches. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. "Security here. Yes, maam. Yes. Groucho glasses. Yes, we're on it. C'mon, guys. Somebody gave an aardvark a nose-cut: somebody who can't deal with deconstructionist humor. Code Blue." -- Mike Hoye, see http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/armadillos.txt