[Debconf-devel] Bug#398363: closed by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> (install libterm-readline-gnu-perl)

[Olaf van der Spek]

On 1/10/07, Debian Bug Tracking System <owner at bugs.debian.org> wrote:
> Subject: install libterm-readline-gnu-perl
>        readline
>               The  most traditional frontend, this looks quite similar to how
>               Debian configuration always has been: a  series  of  questions,
>               printed  out  at the console using plain text, and prompts done
>               using the readline library. It even  supports  tab  completion.
>               The  libterm-readline-gnu-perl  package is strongly recommended
>               if you chose to use this frontend; the default readline  module
>               isn't really good enough.
>
> One of the ways that libterm-readline-perl-perl is not good enough is that
> debconf cannot use it to display defaults.

So why is the library not improved such that it can show those defaults?