[Pkg-zope-developers] Re: Duplicate debconf templates in zope-* packages

[Joey Hess]

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Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:28:21PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> [...]
> > Hmmm, are you sure that this paragraph in the manual makes sense????
> > I guess if a zope package depends from zope all relevant debconf inform=
ation
> > is available and copying the same stuff over and over makes no sense at=
 all
> > except from enhancing the probability of errors.
>=20
> Sorry, i now realize that i did not in consider policy explanation on what
> Depends field mean.
>=20
> Perheps some sort of note in that paragraph of debconf-devel would have b=
een
> useful. I mean something like "Including the shared question, is not requ=
ired
> if all packages depends on the one which provides the template (see secti=
on
> 7.2. of Debian policy)"

That's not at all accurate. Every package that has a config script that
expects to use a template must include a copy of the template in the
package. Dependencies will not be honored at preconfigure time.

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