Package: firmware-ipw2x00 Severity: normal Tags: d-i On installation, debconf is used to display the license, as type note. When the dialog frontend is used, this means the user gets a dialog box, with a big scary license and an "OK" button. One would expect then, that selecting OK means one accepts the license. And the UI does not let one do anything else. UIs that force the user to accept a licence are generally badly thought of.
Only after seemingly agreeing with the license is a second, boolean question presented to ask if the user really accepts the license. At this point, the user cannot refer back to the license they are supposed to be agreeing to, and anyway, this yes/no question comes only after they probably think they've indicated they accept it. The only way for a user to avoid apparently accepting the license is to hit escape, or whatever back button is presented by the debconf frontend. Unfortunatly, the default debconf frontend uses whiptail, which doesn't support escape or a back button here. And in frontends that do support backing up, your preinst is coded to redisplay the first question, so there is no escape. I suggest making two changes: 1. Follow the example in debconf-devel(5) and if the user chooses to back up from the first question asked, do not redisplay it, but exit 10. 2. Combine license display and prompt into a single boolean question. Unfortunatly whiptail strikes again here; it can't scroll the prompt appearing in a boolean, so it would first display the whole question body in another info box. The result would be much as it is now for whiptail, but at least other debconf frontends are able to display the whole license text together with the yes/no prompt. Note that this question can appear during installation. In d-i, cdebconf's newt frontend *does* support showing a long scrolling question body when asking a boolean question, so the issue discussed above in #2 should not be a probolem there. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages firmware-ipw2x00 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy firmware-ipw2x00 recommends no packages. Versions of packages firmware-ipw2x00 suggests: ii initramfs-tools 0.93.4 tools for generating an initramfs ii linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 2.6.32-5 Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs -- see shy jo
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