Hi Helge! Helge Kreutzmann [2005-02-12 16:50 +0100]: > Hello, > Up to now I held off the upgrade because I expected you to provide me > with details or ask for tests. Unfortunately, the machine I ran this > on recently started to have troubles so I will most likly not be able > to test this anymore. > > A response would have been nice, though. (and, of course, still is)
Uh, I thought your bug was entirely about cosmetic issues and would not actually stop you from upgrading. I don't really think that the templates are overly ambiguous, but they indeed might be confusing to non-technical users (who don't know what "symlinks" or "purge" means). Well, for unexperienced users the debconf priority "high" is probably adequate anyway (so that normal questions are not shown and just their defaults are taken). Anyway, this will not be an issue forever in any case. I'm currently working on a completely new packaging and installation structure which avoids all these upgrading troubles and also all debconf questions. However, this is nothing for Sarge, so if this is really an issue, I can trim down the templates a bit. > I assume, that you do run tests in a changroot to check for updates > from woody -> sarge, including reading the debconf-notes? (with a > database containing data, of course). Yes, that's what I usually do for testing upgrades. However, I don't use a chroot since that caused some trouble for me. I just install woody's PostgreSQL on sid (works fine), install a db there and upgrade to the sid version. Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://www.debian.org
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