Interactive upgrade hooks

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:20:06AM +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> What's the general differens between this and debconf? Do you mean
> that in this case  it should be a user change instead of a system
> change.

Yes.

> In the example of UTF-8 I think it should be enough to let that be
> done by debconf?

UTF-8 has to be a user change as well, because a full transition
involves messing around with the contents and names of people's files.
That may cause interoperability problems with scripts and with other
systems, so on no account may it be done automatically by the system.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]