Joey and I had a discussion on IRC today, and we agreed on what we think is a relatively sane way to handle the "fset seen" issues:
No package should "fset seen=false" unless it has a very good reason -- that is, it has to show some critical error message or such. However, there are also situations where a user might really want to change his/her mind about some choice -- that is, when selecting a menu item for the second time. This is more or less equivalent to "dpkg-reconfigure <package>", which could and should be treated specially. So, the proposal is: When main-menu sees that a user selects a menu item for the second time, it sets some kind of debconf variable (say, "debconf/reconfiguring" to "true") which makes cdebconf ignore all seen flags (the priority stays the same). This eliminates the need for udebs to fset seen=false manually, which is an ugly hack anyhow :-) Note that this would also require proper handling of backing up by cdebconf, but once that is in place, it should also be a lot cleaner than the scripts manually setting seen flags all over the place. :-) Comments, anybody? Something I missed? :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
