frontends [Was: debconf dilemma]

2001-09-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Brian> 1. some front ends display the information at the wrong time, Brian> and require manually pressing enter to acknowledge, so you see Brian> the verbose information (which may not even be important) Brian> before you get asked the question. Joey> There's really nothing I can do about this in

Re: debconf dilemma

2001-09-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:14:50PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > 3. some questions are poorly described. eg. for configuring mouse, in > > the slang front end, I see a pull down list of mouse types and the > > following description: "If in doubt choose the first option". Just > > what is the first op

Re: debconf dilemma

2001-09-04 Thread Joey Hess
Brian May wrote: > 1. some front ends display the information at the wrong time, and > require manually pressing enter to acknowledge, so you see the verbose > information (which may not even be important) before you get asked the > question. There's really nothing I can do about this in the conte

Bug#106280: Info received (was Bug#106280: Bug#111088: postinst creates device nodes without permission, policy violation)

2001-09-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#106280: Bug#111088: postinst creates device nodes without permission, policy violation

2001-09-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Mark Brown wrote on Tue Sep 04, 2001 um 09:30:53AM: > > MAKEDEV is a conffile. > Did I miss something? > cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/makedev.conffiles > /etc/init.d/makedev No, I did. Sorry. > > The discussion is about the requiremen

Bug#106280: Bug#111088: postinst creates device nodes without permission, policy violation

2001-09-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Mark Brown wrote on Tue Sep 04, 2001 um 09:30:53AM: > > Hm. Someone see this as bothering, others just want to have control > > about created files. > > MAKEDEV is a conffile. Did I miss something? cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/makedev.conffiles /etc/init.d/makedev > The discussion is abou

Bug#106280: Bug#111088: Info received (was Bug#111088: postinst creates device nodes without permission, policy violation)

2001-09-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#106280: Packages not needing to ask about calling MAKEDEV

2001-09-04 Thread Mark Brown
When the discussion of this bug was happening in June it seemed that there was a consensus that policy should be changed to require notification about the creation of device files. Is the change in policy actually going to happen? I've now got one of the release critical bugs mentioned and feel t

Re: debconf dilemma

2001-09-04 Thread Scott M. Dier
On 04 Sep 2001 15:30:16 +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:56:31PM -0500, Scott M. Dier wrote: > > But, neither was debconf purpoused to becoming documentation for users > > during configuration. Telling users to reference something like > > README.Debian works in all situations

Re: debconf dilemma

2001-09-04 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:56:31PM -0500, Scott M. Dier wrote: > But, neither was debconf purpoused to becoming documentation for users > during configuration. Telling users to reference something like > README.Debian works in all situations except for those in the very > earliest stages of system