[Foo2zjs-maintainer] Introducing debconf

[Luca Bedogni]

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Steffen Joeris wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 06:15:58 pm me at lucabedogni.it wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 August 2007, Steffen Joeris wrote:
> > > On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 07:53:54 am me at lucabedogni.it wrote:
> > > > Hi mates
> > > >     since I have some spare time, i decided to wrote a first revision
> > > > of a debconf script for installing the firmware.
> > > > It's based on debconf, and it's now present on the svn.
> > > > It's a little bit raw i think, need more testing of course, and works
> > > > only for Hp Lj 10xx (i don't have others printers to test it, but it
> > > > won't work anyway :)).
> > > >
> > > > So, this is just and idea, if we want debconf, we can improve this
> > > > scripts, and test it putting a new package in exprimental.
> > > > If we don't want debconf, we can delete this files, but had to find
> > > > another way to fix #419038.
> > >
> > > Although I like the idea of easing the installation process a lot, I
> > > would still object against it. The firmware blurb is non-free and if we
> > > want to got hat way, we would need to say so in the debconf question. I
> > > am very much in favour of providing a working getweb script (or maybe
> > > an own one) and explaining the use in a manpage and in the
> > > README.Debian file. Sorry for that.
> > > By the way, it would be nice to know, if the current foo2zjs in
> > > experimental is working, because I would like to update the current
> > > unstable version and get something working into testing.
> >
> > Ok, so we had 2 principal solutions:
> > 1- Add the non-free notification to debconf (should we ship foo2zjs in
> > contrib)
>
> I do want to keep the package in main. :)

/me too :)

> > 2- Write a barely-new getweb script, and mention it in README.Debian.
> >
> > 1- This is simple adding a template in debian/templates and call it from
> > config, but according to policy, we had to ask _only_ important questions
> > with debconf. This is not, because someone could install the firmware by
> > hand.
> > 2- This should be not really difficult, i think we can look at the
> > makefile and add to the getweb script some things like install-hotplug
> > and install, for automatizing the process.
> >
> > After that, my "vote" goes to 2.
>
> I vote for 2 as well :)

So 2 won (sorry Michael, but also if you'd voted for 1, 2 wins anyway :))

> Did you have a chance to test the current experimental package? Does it
> work?

Well, I've tested it some days ago (a week i remember), and it worked fine. 
Anyway, I've not a really clean environment (some foo2zjs file shipped from 
the original tarball), so I think I'd to do more testing.

> Cheers
> Steffen

Cheers
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