On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> Sure, that's the way (by now) the shared template works. debconf-devel(7)
> says:
>
> SHARED TEMPLATES
> It's actually possible to have a template and a question that are
> shared among a set of packages. All the packages have to provide
> an identical copy of the template in their tem- plates files. This can
> be useful if a bunch of packages need to ask the same question, and
> you only want to bother the user with it once. Shared templates are
> generally put in the shared/ pseudo-directory in the debconf template
> namespace.
>
> The same man page shows an example too in the next sections, under `Choosing
> among related packages'.
In my opinion this is broken. Every single zope product package depends
from Zope. So there is no need to duplicate the templates - even if
the paragraph about SHARED TEMPLATES says so. I would favour a more
sane solution which avoids insane duplication of information which will
cause problems with old versions.
Kind regards
Andreas.
