From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:38:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
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Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a

Author: srivasta
Date: 2003/03/21 20:32:14
Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
footnotre (quoting from the jargon file) to explain what "by hand"
means in a computer context.  closes: Bug#184507

git-archimport-id: srivasta@debian.org--etch/debian-policy--devel--3.0--patch-208
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2631ac2..da62e60 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ debian-policy (3.5.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
     since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
                                                              closes: Bug#184518
   * Inserted the word only in the package name section.      closes: Bug#184368
+  * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
+    footnotre (quoting from the jargon file) to explain what "by hand"
+    means in a computer context.                             closes: Bug#184507
 
  -- 
 
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 0931b9d..f2de5ba 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -1104,14 +1104,21 @@
 	    <heading>Prompting in maintainer scripts</heading>
 	    <p>
 	      Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if
-	      necessary. Prompting may be accomplished by hand, or by
-	      communicating with a program, such as
-	      <prgn>debconf</prgn>, which conforms to the Debian
-	      Configuration management specification, version 2 or
-	      higher.  These are included in the
+	      necessary. Prompting may be accomplished by
+	      hand<footnote>
+		<p>From the Jasrgon file: by hand 2. By extension,
+		  writing code which does something in an explicit or
+		  low-level way for which a presupplied library
+		  (<em>debconf, in this instance</em>) routine ought
+		  to have been available.</p>
+	      </footnote> (but this is deprecated), or by
+	      communicating though a program, which conforms to the
+	      Debian Configuration management specification, version 2
+	      or higher (such as <prgn>debconf</prgn>).  Thiss
+	      specification is included in the
 	      <file>debconf_specification</file> files in the
-	      <package>debian-policy</package> package.
-	      You may also find this file on the FTP site
+	      <package>debian-policy</package> package.  You may also
+	      find this file on the FTP site
 	      <ftpsite>ftp.debian.org</ftpsite> in
 	      <ftppath>/debian/doc/package-developer/debconf_specification.txt.gz</ftppath>
 	      or on your local mirror.<footnote>