Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hmm. I thought I did this.
>
> Actually, I do. Except I'm asking at medium, not high. It's a "normal
> item that has a reasonable default" (see debconf-devel(7)). A correct
> answer is important for the user to have a good computing experience, so
> it cannot be low priority ("Very trivial items that have defaults that
> will work in the vast majority of cases; only control freaks see
> these.").
>
> Perhaps you can help me find the bug in the following:I'm not going to try to comprehend this code, but I can tell you that I reconfigured the package with debconf developer debugging on, and it had decided to ask the question at high priority. Medium priority would be fine. > See my reply to another recent bug of yours regarding autoconfiguration > vs. template defaults. I had a bitch of a time getting that right[1]. > I think it had to do with the fact that I can't program a default > dynamically, and pre-*answering* the question (which changes the > default) is not the right thing to do. I don't see what's wrong with changing the value of the question's answer before asking it if mdetect found a mouse on /dev/psaux. -- see shy jo
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