[Fai-commit] r3040 - trunk/debian

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Friday 11 November 2005 14:47, fai-repository at svn.debian.org wrote:
> Author: lange
> Date: 2005-11-11 13:47:19 +0000 (Fri, 11 Nov 2005)
> New Revision: 3040
>
> Modified:
>    trunk/debian/fai-quickstart.prerm
> Log:
> add question before removing $FAI_CONFIGDIR
>
>
> Modified: trunk/debian/fai-quickstart.prerm
> ===================================================================
> --- trunk/debian/fai-quickstart.prerm	2005-11-11 13:39:06 UTC (rev 3039)
> +++ trunk/debian/fai-quickstart.prerm	2005-11-11 13:47:19 UTC (rev 3040)
> @@ -8,7 +8,13 @@
>  	if [ -z "$FAI_CONFIGDIR" ]; then
>  	    echo "\$FAI_CONFIGDIR is not defined. Can't remove it."
>  	else
> -	    rm -rf $FAI_CONFIGDIR
> +	    echo -n "Shall I do rm -rf $FAI_CONFIGDIR? " ; read answer
> +	    case $answer in
> +		y*|Y*)
> +		    rm -rf $FAI_CONFIGDIR ;;
> +		*)
> +		    echo "$FAI_CONFIGDIR left untouched." ;;
> +	    esac
>  	fi
>          ;;

according to latest version of debian-policy prompting for user-input without 
debconf is deprecated. (And we fai-users know exactly why :-)

See 
file:/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-binary.html#s-maintscriptprompt

As this violates "should use debconf" this is a bug of severity "normal".


regards,
	Holger
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