Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:48:52AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:56:51AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: And is the overwhelming majority of interactive scripts that _do_ use debconf already not a huge enough amount? No, it's not current practice to use debconf when a

Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:16:15PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: - a package has it's documentation in /usr/doc - the maintainer gets a patch how to change it - the maintainer refuses the patch I want to have the documentation in /usr/doc. - a

Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 08:57:26AM +, Mark Brown wrote: And is the overwhelming majority of interactive scripts that _do_ use debconf already not a huge enough amount? No, it's not current practice to use debconf when a bunch of important packages specifically don't use it. Which

Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: ... aj, who'll be proposing the MUST/SHOULD nonsense be removed from the hands of policy when he gets some free time again Let's play the evil maintainer game: I play the evil maintainer who does everything with his packages that isn't forbidden.

Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:54:41AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:58:26PM +0100, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote: The lack of automatic installation is the reason why I don't install Debian any more for my customers. Oh, and to

Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:19:42AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: aj, who'll be proposing the MUST/SHOULD nonsense be removed from the hands of policy when he gets some free time again I play the evil maintainer who does everything with his packages

Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Mark Brown wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:48:52AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:56:51AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: And is the overwhelming majority of interactive scripts that _do_ use debconf already not a huge enough amount? No,

Bug#123570: debian-policy: Add new virtual package foomatic-data

2001-12-11 Thread Manfred Wassmann
Package: debian-policy Version: N/A Severity: wishlist I'm currently packaging the foomatic printer/driver database and print system. The database is written in XML and is used to create specialized printer description files that are needed by the included print filter backends. The PPD files