On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:27:48PM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote: > Lately F-Prot has started offering their own deb, but it is rather > broken. Therefore I think that the f-prot-installer package still has a > reason to exist.
Have you talked to them about it? A good responsive upstream can make all the difference. > Now, a substantial problem I have is, that, depending on the situation, > one or more questions _must_ be asked at _each_ installation. must, so make it a high debconf priority, are you sure its must though? > - If a version of F-Prot is already installed, do you wish to reinstall > (i.e. check if there is an update and if yes, download and install it) > or should I leave it alone? > > - Do you wish to use an already downloaded file? Combine the two to an option "do nothing", "download and install" "install from file" > - If so, where do I find it? OK > - If not: Do you wish to proceed with the installation, as it requires a > running Internet connection? If not what? You mean if they select "download and install"? If so they areadty said yes. > Especially with the last three questions, this is an issue: You cannot > assume that on each package upgrade the user will give identical answers > here. > > Therefore I have used db_fset f-prot-installer/foobar seen false > to ensure that the question is asked at each upgrade. I'd use a priority, again I ask is it really neccessary to ask the same questions over and over again. consider two scenarios: I have some special files or I never want them upgraded for some reason I have a DSL connection and want the latest and greatest every time. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
