On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 16:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Andrew McMillan <and...@morphoss.com> writes:
>
> > Here's an updated patch to apply the following wording:
> >
> > Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary.
> > Prompting must be done by communicating through a program, such
> > as debconf, which conforms to the Debian Configuration
> > Management Specification, version 2 or higher.
> >
> > Packages which are essential, or which are dependencies of
> > essential packages, may fall back on another prompting method if
> > no such interface is available when they are executed.
>
> Seconded.
That seems to be accepted by everyone, so I've pushed it to policy now.
I hope that's the right thing... Please tell me if I've done something
the wrong way, or whatever.
Cheers,
Andrew.
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