On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 17:10, Joey Hess wrote: > 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.
I second this proposal.
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