On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:28:04PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 07:52:43AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > Suggestions much appreciated. > > > > You should drop your debconf note, and put its content into NEWS.Debian. > > drat. just missed the packaging upload I did. > > But you might debate that point,with the debian person who filed a bug > suggesting that I needed to do it with debconf in the first place ;-)
This had been debated several times on debian-devel, see eg. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200401/msg01686.html and has been clarified in debconf-devel(7): note Rather than being a question per se, this datatype indi- cates a note that can be displayed to the user. It should be used only for important notes that the user really should see, since debconf will go to great pains to make sure the user sees it; halting the install for them to press a key, and even mailing the note to them in some cases. It's best to use these only for warning about very serious problems. Denis
