Bug#344972: Please add more pointers to debconf-devel(7) (Was: Re: Policy documentation on debconf)

2005-12-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: developers-reference, www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Please mention devconf-devel(7) in the developers reference and at debian.org/devel/ I really hope its clear that debconf-devel needs to have something else pointing to it, since it is the second time in 30 days that someone has bee

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-27 Thread Frank Küster
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:41:00 +0100, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> And I thought I could rely upon dpkg from the next upload to call >> the configure script with the same arguments as it did before, just >> as I can rely on the same for p

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:41:00 +0100, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > And I thought I could rely upon dpkg from the next upload to call > the configure script with the same arguments as it did before, just > as I can rely on the same for preinst, postinst etc. Not more than what p

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-27 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051227 17:40]: > Do you think it would be an obstacle for development if that were > documented in the Policy, just as the same is documented for the > "classical" maintainer scripts? Why isn't it an obstacle for those > other scripts? Well, I think any new sc

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-27 Thread Frank Küster
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:27:04 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > >> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:23:23PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:59:07 -0200, Rogério Brito >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: On Dec

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:27:04 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:23:23PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:59:07 -0200, Rogério Brito >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> On Dec 25 2005, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: Ah yeah, this

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-27 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:23:23PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:59:07 -0200, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> On Dec 25 2005, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >>> Ah yeah, this seems to contain the information. Thanks a lot. Is >>> there a good reason it is not in th

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 06:41:38PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Dec 26 2005, Joey Hess wrote: > > >> (policy also contains a formal definition of the debconf protocol amoung > >> other bits of debconf documentation) > > > This I could not find, as

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dec 26 2005, Joey Hess wrote: >> (policy also contains a formal definition of the debconf protocol amoung >> other bits of debconf documentation) > This I could not find, as I already pointed in the reply to Russ... This is something different than

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-26 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 26 2005, Joey Hess wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Sure. Should be in the documentation of debconf itself. Right. > debconf-devel(7), anyone? Right and sorry for being obtuse. :-) > (policy also contains a formal definition of the debconf protocol amoung > other bits of debc

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-26 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > It would be nicer to have it completely described (and in an updated > > manner) in a definitive reference, of course. > > Sure. Should be in the documentation of debconf itself. debconf-devel(7), anyone? (policy also contains a formal definition of the debcon

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:59:07 -0200, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, Lionel. > On Dec 25 2005, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 05:37:11PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: >> > * http://www.kitenet.net/~joey/debconf-debconf/tutorial-doc.html >> Ah yeah, this seems to

Policy documentation on debconf (was: Re: Package's configure script)

2005-12-25 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Lionel. On Dec 25 2005, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 05:37:11PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > But you question below left me with an impression that it could be > > related to the config script of the package that is made to use > > debconf stuff in a package. Is this