MD5 Support

[Niall Young]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 senaque at thepla.net wrote:

> concrete things. In Chapter 5 of the Debian Policy Manual (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-
> policy/ch-miscellaneous.html) it specifically states:
>
> "Since an interactive debian/rules script makes it impossible to auto-compile that package and
> also makes it hard for other people to reproduce the same binary package, all required targets
> MUST be non-interactive."
> Am I to understand the passwd program _should_ actually be able to install non-interactively if it is
> to comply with the Debian policy?

I think there's two parts to that - debconf and custom interaction in
preinst/postinst scripts.  It's currently Debian policy to *recommend*
debconf be used for all user interaction during configuration, and
there's been a discussion on debian-devel to change this to a policy of
*only* debconf being used.  The second point of the discussion was to
ensure that every package would be required to install cleanly in
Noninteractive mode.

So, as far as I know, neither are mandated yet.

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