* Bdale Garbee <bd...@gag.com>, 2010-12-01, 10:15:
This postinst snippet:

constitutes a violation of Policy 3.9.1 ("Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary. Prompting must be done by communicating through a program, such as `debconf', which conforms to the Debian Configuration Management Specification, version 2 or higher.").

I've considered this before. This snippet should never fire unless there's something very unusual about the user's system. Adding debconf to the list of sudo dependencies just to handle this "virtually never" sanity check really doesn't make sense to me.

If push comes to shove and pedantic adherence to this element of policy is required, I'll probably just abandon this test in the postinst entirely rather than add debconf support.

Fair enough, feel free to tag the bug wontfix.

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Jakub Wilk

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