[Debconf-devel] Bug#690390: debconf: Use config file defaults instead of cache

[Joey Hess]

Bas Wijnen wrote:
> The proposed solution is to add functionality to debconf, which can read
> and edit config files.

debconf already contains this functionality. It's called a config
script.

Packages that do not use the config script to read their config files
before using debconf to ask questions are buggy, yes.

> A problem with this is that debconf will need to know the file format of
> the config file. 

A config script is a completely general solution to that problem.

-- 
see shy jo
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