On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 08:00:51PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > On 18 March 2013 18:56, Serafeim Zanikolas <s...@debian.org> wrote: [..] > > If I understand correctly, debconf can only be used with predefined > > templates, > > thus predefined generic policy questions (as opposed to questions that can > > be > > different on every invocation). > > Yes, the templates are predefined, but the questions are not. A > question is a template with potentially some substitutions made. The > substitutions can be arbitrary, including multi-line strings, and > there should be little if any flexability lost. Effectively it is no > different to printf type string templates, coupled with pre-determined > responses (such as, what action to take for pkg X with bugs Y).
Daniel, thanks for taking the time to clarify. It makes sense now. Francesco, implementation details aside, are you OK with the direction? -- Every great idea is worthless without someone to do the work. --Neil Williams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
