Your message dated Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:17:03 +0000
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and subject line Bug#546711: fixed in ucf 3.0023
has caused the Debian Bug report #546711,
regarding Missleading dialogue text
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Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.27
Severity: critical
Usually the severity of a bug like this would be "wishlist" to "minor" (since
it isn't really a bug at all) but if a programm leads the user to wrong
decissions and other software is affected (important conf-files are overriden =
data loss) its critical.
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
If you disagree with it (or its only a problem in the german translation),
please feel free to change severity.
I usually use Synaptic but I think the problem is related to debconf since the
window-title said so.
Debconf uses to interact with the user on package upgrade if there are modified
configuration-files. In my case I modified /etc/default/grub before and debconf
aks if I want to keep my modified conf-file or if I want to install the
maintainers version.
But the message box really is missunderstandable (at least in german - I don't
know how to display or read the message in english):
It says:
"Konfiguriere grub.pc
Wie wollen Sie mit grub verfahren?
aktuell installierte Version behalten
...
Version des Paket-Betreuers installieren"
which means in english (my poor translation):
"configuring grub.pc
What do you want to to with grub?
keep installed Version
...
install version of package-maintainer"
Of course now I know that debconf means the file /etc/default/grub, but the
very first time it happened, I thought that debconf means the _package_ "grub"
(since I know the package name - I didn't remember the conffile name)and I
choosed "install version of package-maintainer" because I wanted to update to
the current version of grub.
So its really bad because my modified conf-file is lost (in case of grub it is
even worse).
Please change the message text to something like "What do you want to happen to
the conffile /etc/default/grub" or at least otherwise make clear that debconf
means the conffile and not the whole package.
Christian Meyer
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Source: ucf
Source-Version: 3.0023
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ucf, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
ucf_3.0023.dsc
to pool/main/u/ucf/ucf_3.0023.dsc
ucf_3.0023.tar.gz
to pool/main/u/ucf/ucf_3.0023.tar.gz
ucf_3.0023_all.deb
to pool/main/u/ucf/ucf_3.0023_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]> (supplier of updated ucf package)
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Hash: RIPEMD160
Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:42:27 -0500
Source: ucf
Binary: ucf
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.0023
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]>
Description:
ucf - Update Configuration File: preserve user changes to config files.
Closes: 546711 548014
Changes:
ucf (3.0023) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Bug fix: "[INTL:vi] Vietnamese debconf templates translation update",
thanks to Clytie Siddall (Closes: #548014).
* Bug fix: "Missleading dialogue text", thanks to Christian Meyer
(Closes: #546711).
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