[Konstantinos Margaritis] > * of all the conffiles.d, we only need xfree86-kbd, and probably > kde(but updated for kde 3)
If possible, make sure the package work in Woody as well as in Sarge/Sid. > * ispell needs to be updated to new versions which are (I think) > debconf base Yes, some major rewrites have been done to the ispell config. Perhaps ispell should be replaced by aspell, which I'm told is a better spell checker? > * maybe add gnome configurations (but I have very little gnome > experience) Not needed. gnome uses the LANG and LANGUAGE environment variables (ie locales). > * we don't really need locale and timezone (as these are handled by > debian-installer) Is the timezone really working as it should in d-i? Good. > * we also don't need to configure links and ktouch (as these are > optional packages and not debconf based), ltsp-xfree86-kbd (as it's > skolelinux specific) and opera6 (not available in debian itself) Well, _need_ is a strange criteria to use. As long as they only fix the config when the package is installed, I would very much like to handle as many packages as possible. > * If we decide to update kde as well, then we have to either: > a) make kde configurable by debconf, or > b) split the package into 2 subpackages, one to be called before X > configuration (thus pre-seeding debconf values) and one after > (finishing up KDE configuration). You don't need to split the package in two. You can have one package, with two base-config fragments. I do not think it will be possible to get all packages configurable with debconf in a reasonable time frame, so I believe we need to keep both ways of configuration.
