On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:00:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > I think this must be a bug in debconf. Joey, does the lack of an > > extended description in the screenshot in > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=231083#msg19 make any > > sense to you? > > Yes, that's what debconf does in its dialog frontend if the extended > description is too large to be displayed in a single dialog. It displays > the extended description first, in a scrolling text box, and then asks > the question using only the short description. > > I can easily reproduce this by running dpkg-reconfigure -fdialog man-db > in an 80x25 xterm. > > I suggest you try to shorten the length of that extended description > by about 3 lines.
Aha, thanks! I thought from Andree's description of the problem that the extended description had disappeared entirely. Done in man-db 2.4.2-8. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
