Hi Colin Joey is perfectly right. If've just done another run of d-i, and guess what: now, at the fifth run, the mandb screen is suddenly staring me in the face!
Well, of course it was always there. I probably just saw lots of text and <Ok> at the bottom, and went for the esay way out without bothering my conscious with it. So, yeah, I'm an idiot. But I guess that shortening it so that it fits on the page with the more scary buttons would be great from a usability point of view. Apologies for having made it sound like the info screen wasn't there. It was there all the time, I just haven't seen it. Sorry. Best regards Andree On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 04:39, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:00:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > I think this must be a bug in debconf. Joey, does the lack of an > > > extended description in the screenshot in > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=231083#msg19 make any > > > sense to you? > > > > Yes, that's what debconf does in its dialog frontend if the extended > > description is too large to be displayed in a single dialog. It displays > > the extended description first, in a scrolling text box, and then asks > > the question using only the short description. > > > > I can easily reproduce this by running dpkg-reconfigure -fdialog man-db > > in an 80x25 xterm. > > > > I suggest you try to shorten the length of that extended description > > by about 3 lines. > > Aha, thanks! I thought from Andree's description of the problem that the > extended description had disappeared entirely. > > Done in man-db 2.4.2-8. -- Andree Leidenfrost Sydney - Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
