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0001 Debconf-KDE 0002 ----------- 0003 0004 ------------------- 0005 General information 0006 ------------------- 0007 0008 This is libdebconf-kde, a library which provides a debconf frontend to present 0009 questions asked during package installation on Debian-based systems. 0010 0011 A debconf frontend is something similar to a mail server; it gets commands from 0012 a client and replies with a status code followed by a human readable message, 0013 for instance "0 ok". When a program is installed in Debian, the 'config script' 0014 (see man debconf-devel), acts as a client of a debconf frontend. Thus, different 0015 frontends with different kind of user interfaces (kde/qt, gtk, text) can be used 0016 to configure debian packages. This particular frontend is currently used by muon 0017 and apper to configure packages. 0018 0019 While the clients for this protocol are oftenly the config scripts mentioned 0020 above, other programs can use this protocol, for instance apt-listchanges has a 0021 debconf interface, which allows muon to display the apt-listchanges messages 0022 inside the muon user interface 0023 0024 ----------------------------------- 0025 Protocol used: the debconf protocol 0026 ----------------------------------- 0027 0028 The debconf protocol used by this software is explained here: 0029 * /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/debconf_specification.html 0030 * man 7 debconf-devel 0031 0032 There a are a couple of extensions of the protocol implemented in libdebconf-kde, 0033 specifically these commands: 0034 * X_PING - see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631769 0035 * X_LOADTEMPLATEFILE - this is used by apt-listchanges, so providing it means 0036 apt-listchanges messages can be displayed by libdebconf-kde, see: 0037 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678311