On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:24:03AM +0100, Pierre Machard wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:52:31PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > > In theory, the "note" should only be displayed by debconf if the user was > > upgrading from one of the really old versions. > > So if there is no need for the note, it will never cause an action to > > take place. > > So IMO, it is one of the few really good cases to use it. > > Do not forget that a user != admin, and to my mind a debconf note is > only intended to be display to the box admin.
True. Except when it is effectively a single-user box. But either way, it is important to make this sort of stuff blindingly obvious, because as I mentioned, tracking it down gets tricky. Heck, after the next official debian release (2005? heh, heh) I'll take it out, in unstable. But for now, its about the best way I can think of.
