[Debconf-devel] Success in using cdebconf alone to bootstrap VMs

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Gioele Barabucci <gioele at svario.it> wrote (Sun, 28 Aug 2022 09:19:53 +0200):
> 
> Dear debconf and cdebconf maintainers,
> 
> you probably have seen the bugs reports [1] and the MRs [2,3] that I 
> recently opened related to the creation and the use of `debconf-common`.
> 
> With these changes [4,5,6] applied (and a few unrelated changes) I have 
> been able to mmdebootstrap a number of VMs in which classic debconf is 
> not used at all, neither at installation time nor afterward.
> 
> I'm confident that a debconf-free unstable for base systems could be 
> achieved before the freeze with little effort.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1018261
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/merge_requests/11
> [3] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/-/merge_requests/17
> [4] https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/debconf/-/commits/debconf-common-pkg
> [5] https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/cdebconf/-/commits/depend-debconf-common
> [6] https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/cdebconf/-/commits/independence

Any objections against this approach?

Holger



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