On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:09:16PM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote: > sorry for the late reply, i was out of town for a few days.
Sorry for having already committed most of this stuff, it was needed to make language selection work with the new languagechooser package. > > 1. The helper macros recently introduced do break several packages > > under debian-installer/tools/ which used to declare their own > > debconf_input function. Maybe we could remove these macros, I > > wonder whether they are that useful. > > i thought you asked for them? :-) It was not me ;) > unless i hear otherwise i'll commit a patch tomorrow to wrap them inside > a #ifdef WITH_DEBCONF_HELPER_MACROS or something like that. > > > 2. The attached backup.patch finishes support for backing up. As it > > slightly changes cdebconf interface, I prefer sending it there. > > looks ok in general, but perhaps you can add an enum for the -1, 0, 1 > stuff instead of using a number? thanks! this is a long-needed bugfix. You are of course right, I'll do that. [...] > > 4. As esplained in #172218, current TITLE command is not l10n-friendly. > > I will wait for Joey's solution before changing this in cdebconf, but > > the new progress bar support suffers from the same problem. > > hrm, i see.... making it a template seems like a reasonable thing to > do... Or a new element type? [...] > btw2, we should really not have this piece of code in debconf.c: > q = questions->methods.get(questions, "debian-installer/language"); > can this be just debconf/language instead? > > putting cdebconf in debian-installer cvs was more of a convenience. > cdebconf is not meant to be a debian-installer-specific application. I understand, but having debconf/language does not make sense since debconf uses environment variables for its l10n. Could we add #ifdef DEBIAN_INSTALLER to ship those parts only into cdebconf.udeb? > btw3, istr some talk about implementing a http based db backend. is that > available some place? sorry if i missed this on the list, i haven't been > following d-boot too closely. No idea. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
