[Foo2zjs-maintainer] Introducing debconf

[me at lucabedogni.it]

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)
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.

> Cheers
> Steffen

Cheers
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