On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 01:43:09PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > El jueves, 19 de julio de 2018 07:08:43 -03 Colin Watson escribió: > > Sorry for dropping this on the floor for so long! I've reviewed this > > and tested it on a Debian KDE stretch system, and I see no major > > problems, so I've rebased and merged it. > > > > The only substantive changes I made were to silence the rather noisy > > debugging output from debconf-kde-helper (using QT_LOGGING_RULES) unless > > DEBCONF_DEBUG=kde is set, and to make the Kde frontend fall back to the > > Qt frontend. > > That sounds good, and a post-patch related change if I'm not mistaken (the > logging rules where added after Modestas did the patch, again if I'm not > mistaken).
Quite possibly. > > It seems likely that we'll need to get rid of it relatively soon, but > > I'd first like to make sure that the new one works properly in more than > > trivial test situations. I've CCed the maintainers of debconf-kde and > > the debian-qt-kde list - is that something you could test, please? Use > > debconf 1.5.68 once it hits unstable shortly, and also make sure that > > you aren't seeing warnings about falling back to the Qt frontend. > > Now the bad news: we haven't (or at very least I haven't) heard of Modestas > in > a long time now. Ah, that's a shame, but the debconf side of the new frontend is simple enough that I should have no trouble maintaining it from here on in anyway. (I don't know much about the debconf-kde side, but that's had a respectable amount of activity lately so I'm not too concerned about it.) > For what I've gathered from the last queries I made to the team due to qt4- > perl and the debconf frontend no one is really using/interested in it. Of > course if someone reading me thinks I'm wrong please jump in right now! > > At this point getting rid of the qt4 fromtend will surely help us reduce the > Qt4 footprint in the archive. > > > What I can do is ask users to try it. I would need to know first how to use > it, because I see the KDE fromtend installed in my system but I've never seen > a KDE-based debconf dialog. Yes, I might be missing something very silly > here... Simple enough: once you've installed the new version, "dpkg-reconfigure debconf" and select the "Kde" frontend. You can then install/remove packages that do debconf interaction, using apt or aptitude or a graphical frontend or whatever, and see if you get reasonable prompts. If you'd prefer to configure the frontend temporarily, then you can also export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=kde in the environment (but make sure that this makes it all the way through whatever layers of package management you're using). Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]