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@@ -184,28 +184,13 @@ configuration file. This is accomplished by taking the configuration file and stashing it in a cache area during registration, and using diff3 during the install (the stashed file name is a munged version of the full path of the configuration file to avoid name space clashes). -.I Note -This option appeared in Version 0.8 of -.B ucf, -which was the first version released into unstable and ultimately -.B Sarge. -The version of ucf in woody does not contain this option. .TP .B "\-\-debconf\-ok" Indicate that it is ok for .I ucf to use an already running debconf instance for prompting (it has always been ok to use ucf when debconf is not running -- it shall -invoke debconf as needed). Since historically maintainer scripts that -used debconf and also ucf had to disable/cripple debconf before -running ucf (since ucf did not prompt with debconf, and needed stdio -available), ucf must be cautious when called from a maintainer script -that uses debconf. This option lets it know that the maintainer script -has not told debconf to stop, or redirected its stdio from debconf, or -anything of the sort -- and thus it is safe to use debconf even when -the script discovers that debconf is running. Packages that call ucf -with this option should take care to depend on version 0.28 or higher -of ucf (the first to support use this option). +invoke debconf as needed). .TP .B "\-\-debconf\-template foo" Instruct ucf to use the named multiselect debconf template instead of |