On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:31:59PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Adrian Bunk writes ("Bug#176506: Make debconf mandatory for prompting the
> user"):
> ...
> > The problem is that within the rules of your policy every single of your
> > over thousand maintainers can
Adrian Bunk writes ("Bug#176506: Make debconf mandatory for prompting the
user"):
...
> The problem is that within the rules of your policy every single of your
> over thousand maintainers can decide how he wants to maintain his
> packages. Currently a maintainer can s
Adam DiCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm willing to second the proposal as is, with the "must" directive.
I am afraid that would not fly, since the policy group has no
mandate to be able to do so.
> I do think there should be an impact analysis done, a quick one: how
> many packag
I'm willing to second the proposal as is, with the "must" directive.
I do think there should be an impact analysis done, a quick one: how
many packages in main do interactive prompting?
I'm personally not afraid of making 30% of packages suddenly buggy if
that's what it takes to make Debian bett
retitle 176506 [PROPOSAL] Make debconf mandatory for prompting the user
thanks
Michael
Moin Adrian!
Adrian Bunk schrieb am Thursday, den 16. January 2003:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:10:28AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Your policy says:
"Your" is good, I still consider you as a persion involved in _our_
project.
> debian-devel is important for finding Debian developer supportin
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:54:03PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote:
> Adrian Bunk (2003-01-13 12:00:31 +0100) :
>
> > I'm therefore suggesting that you change your policy to something like:
> >
> > <-- snip -->
> >
> > ...
> > 2.3.9.1. Prompting in maintainer scripts
> >
Adrian Bunk (2003-01-13 12:00:31 +0100) :
> I'm therefore suggesting that you change your policy to something like:
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> ...
> 2.3.9.1. Prompting in maintainer scripts
>
>
> Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary.
[Adrian Bunk]
> I'm currently working on things like automated upgrading of many
> (>> 100) computers. Debian already includes much infrastructure that
> makes this task relatively cheap. For packages using debconf for
> prompting the user it's easy to give the answers without pressing enter
> on 1
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.8.0
Severity: wishlist
Your policy says:
<-- snip -->
...
2.3.9.1. Prompting in maintainer scripts
Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary.
Prompting may be accomplished by hand, or by
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