Re: When debconf is no longer required for a package...

2010-04-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:22:57 -0700 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: Is this just a corner case that lintian doesn't catch? (Is it really so rare that packages stop using debconf at some future version?) It's roughly equivalent to a package

When debconf is no longer required for a package...

2010-04-24 Thread Neil Williams
Scenario: A package has been using debconf successfully for a reasonable time frame (including one stable release) but develops to a point where the debconf questions are not only unused but potentially problematic and could become a source of new bugs. The debconf questions, the translations of

Re: When debconf is no longer required for a package...

2010-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: Is this just a corner case that lintian doesn't catch? (Is it really so rare that packages stop using debconf at some future version?) It's roughly equivalent to a package moving from a database that needed dbconfig-common support to some other

Re: When debconf is no longer required for a package...

2010-04-24 Thread Joey Hess
Postinst: #!/bin/sh set -e if some_version_test [ -e /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ]; then . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule db_purge fi -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature