As far as I can see, this proposal has one conditional second (from aph pending an impact study), and some discussion, and has been stalled since mid-January. It also looks to me, from reading the thread, that we have an easy consensus on just changing policy to upgrade the suggestion to use debconf from a "may" to a "should", and holding off on making it a "must" until later. Which seems better than nothing. Shall we then amend it as follows, just to get some forward progress and document current practice?
Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary.
Prompting should be done by communicating with a program, such as
`debconf', which conforms to the Debian Configuration management
specification, version 2 or higher. Prompting the user by other
means, such as by hand, is now deprecated.
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