Re: cdebconf (and friends) upload or not?

Hi everyone, On 27/01/16 12:14, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Christian PERRIER (2016-01-27): >> Do you think that cdebconf and its friends (cdebconf-entropy and >> cdebconf-terminal) are ready for an upload to unstable? > > I don't think I can reasonably spend time to

Re: More of cdebconf and GTK+3

Hi again ! On 22/01/16 19:04, Regis Boudin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just realised something this afternoon about cdebconf and GTK+, which > is the plugins. Obviously they'd have to be recompiled for GTK+3 as > well, so I tried to do that. > > The build failed with the

More of cdebconf and GTK+3

Hi everyone, I just realised something this afternoon about cdebconf and GTK+, which is the plugins. Obviously they'd have to be recompiled for GTK+3 as well, so I tried to do that. The build failed with the use of old stuff from GTK+2, which I replaced as they were trivial. While there, I also

Re: More cdebconf patches

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > Looking at it, it seems the following part of the diff is strange > (src/modules/frontend/gtk/screenshot.c): | width = > gdk_window_get_width(gdk_window); | height = > gdk_window_get_height(gdk_window); | +#if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(3,0,0)

More cdebconf patches

? Thanks, Regis >From d7c6920fc2293c4d3782988990234a29ab079ccb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Regis Boudin <re...@boudin.name> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 18:11:39 + Subject: [PATCH] First shot at being able to build for either GTK+2 or GTK+3 --- configure.ac

Re: More cdebconf patches

On 10/01/16 21:40, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sorry I didn't follow up to earlier mails about cdebconf patches, > haven't been able to process enough other requests… No worries. The previous patches I pushed we rather trivial. > Regis Boudin <re...@boudin.name> (2

Re: More cdebconf improvements

Hi again, On 17/11/15 00:07, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Regis Boudin <re...@boudin.name> (2015-11-16): >> That's a different patch indeed, which I won't push without a minimum of >> coordination as it changes the API/ABI of the plugin inteface. Also the >> patch is

Re: More cdebconf improvements

On 16/11/15 23:29, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > (Adjusting subject slightly.) > > Regis Boudin <re...@boudin.name> (2015-11-16): >> Jumping slightly on the cdebconf bandwagon here. Having finally a >> proper Internet connection, I've pushed a few change

Re: cdebconf_0.196_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi everyone, On 16/11/15 22:01, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Samuel Thibault (2015-11-16): >> Cyril Brulebois, on Mon 16 Nov 2015 22:39:26 +0100, wrote: >>> I'm sorry but the implementation doesn't look reasonable at >>>

Re: Bits from the Debian Installer release manager

Hi, On 21/08/15 07:00, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Bugs I would close in the process are : #666530: cups fails to configure under cdebconf #752002: Please run maintainer scripts in correct selinux context #700924,#720339: Please allow to show/hide characters typed in password field Ooh, the

Re: Bits from the Debian Installer release manager

Hi Cyril, On 11/08/15 23:22, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi! Release pace You might have noticed the first Alpha release of the Debian Installer for Stretch published in late July. This release took some time (almost 3 months) because we were mostly awaiting the linux kernel,

Bug#752002: cdebconf: Please run maintainer scripts in correct selinux context

Hi Laurent, On 18/06/14 18:27, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Package: cdebconf Version: 0.191 Severity: wishlist Hi, Since 1.17.0, dpkg is trying to run the maintainer scripts in a different context based on the file context and fallback on dpkg_script_t. OTHO, a maintainer script run

Re: Bug#723729: partman-crypto: LUKS master key is read from /dev/urandom

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/09/13 18:57, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.na...@gmail.com): 2. In case the job doesn't return within a couple of seconds, instruct the user to a) either press keys until enough entropy has been gathered or b)

Bug#720339: debian-installer: Be sure of the keyboard binds before entering the passwords

On 21/08/13 11:58, Christian PERRIER wrote: reassign 720339 cdebconf retitle 720339 Please add an option to make entered password visible when prompted thanks Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): I think that's just a matter of implementing a checkbox (or similar) in debconf

Re: Bug report on cdebconf: dpkg-preconfigure crashes with exit status 139

Hi everyone, On 26/06/13 19:41, Alexandre Rebert wrote: Hi, We found a crash in dpkg-preconfigure contained in the cdebconf package. You are being contacted because your are listed as one of the maintainer of cdebconf. We are planning to submit the bug to the Debian bug tracking system

Re: (quick) status of all d-i packages

Hi everyone, On 15/05/13 13:59, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Since we're on that topic, I'm happy to see Colin and you upload packages with pending changes in git. I don't think it makes sense to target a release right now (eglibc + linux + other transitions would make that hard if not impossible

cdebconf 0.161

Hi everyone, It's been a while since the last cdebconf release, I would like to make sure I'm not missing anything in the larger scheme before uploading it. Any objection ? Regis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

debconf patch : Follow database files symlinks

the cdebconf/frontend value. NB : I am definitely not a perl person, so I would strongly recommend someone with more experience reviews the patch before actually applying it. Thanks, Regis From 349046fd802e9bc10c496642ae10672fd0eb12c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Regis Boudin re...@boudin.name

cdebconf, missing bits

Hi everyone, Time to review what's needed/missing for cdebconf, either in cdebconf itself, or other packages to make it fully usable. One currently missing bit is the handling of triggers in dpkg-reconfigure, which I'm currently working on. A big problem raised recently is #666530, highlighting

Re: cdebconf 0.159

On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 07:14 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: Sure, will be clearer. Can be improved with: [...] (this way, ${descriptions} will not be added as a string to translate with the risk of some translators translating the varaiable name, which is a very common mistake) Well,

Re: cdebconf 0.159

On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 07:53 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: Having thought about it a bit more today, I believe moving the template for cdebconf/frontend/gtk to cdebconf.templates is the right thing to do. Although it would put the text in the wrong package, it would be in its dependency,

Re: cdebconf 0.159

On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 23:01 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: I just marked the templates as translatable and part of the newly introduced sublevel 6 (that isn't counted in statistics). Thanks, that's awesome ! I slightly changed the description of the GTK interface, which I found too

Bug#666530: cups fails to configure under cdebconf

Ok, I've modified cdebconf, so trying to get a flag that doesn't exist now returns false instead of an error, which is more consistent with the original debconf behaviour, though it's still not possible to set arbitrary flags. Regis On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 23:24 +0100, Regis Boudin wrote: Hi

Re: cdebconf 0.159

Hi again, First 2 races done, I've managed to get some sleep, so I'm back for a week until I switch to China time... Aren't texts identical to debconf ones? I was thinking so, so I never paid attention to this very strongly. At least they should be similar, so we should reuse debconf

Bug#666530: cups fails to configure under cdebconf

Hi, Thanks for the report, On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 10:19 -0400, Jacob Emmert-Aronson wrote: Package: cdebconf Version: 0.160 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When cdebconf is enabled, Oh, one more person running cdebconf ! It's getting a bit popular. the cups postinst script dies

Re: cdebconf 0.159

Hi, Apologies for the delay in replies at the moment. Providing support for the Australia last weekend, and Malaysia this weekend, so I'm mostly sleeping on my free time... On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 19:08 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Regis Boudin (re...@boudin.name): An obvious one

Re: cdebconf 0.159

On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 14:56 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Regis Boudin wrote: That's a bit odd, the initial setup and conversion is done in the config script, and I would have expected debconf to have already run it before. Unless I got it wrong with my almost empty postinst. FWIW, I saw

Re: cdebconf 0.159

On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 14:56 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Regis Boudin wrote: That's a bit odd, the initial setup and conversion is done in the config script, and I would have expected debconf to have already run it before. Unless I got it wrong with my almost empty postinst. FWIW, I saw

Re: cdebconf 0.159

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:16:56 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Regis Boudin (re...@boudin.name): Hi everyone ! That's it, after a month of testing on my main machine, I uploaded cdebconf 0.159. Time for me to switch..:-) Oh, so I'll start breaking people's machine, now ! First

Re: cdebconf 0.159

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:40:22 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Regis Boudin wrote: Hi everyone ! That's it, after a month of testing on my main machine, I uploaded cdebconf 0.159. Although some features are still missing, it should actually be usable. Well, I've been using it on my main machine

cdebconf 0.159

Hi everyone ! That's it, after a month of testing on my main machine, I uploaded cdebconf 0.159. Although some features are still missing, it should actually be usable. Well, I've been using it on my main machine for a month with 2 daily updates, and a few dpkg-reconfigure -a, and all blocking

Re: Proposal to get Wheezy Alpha1 done

Hi Adam, On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 19:47 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 14:55 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: I'd like to propose following timeline for alpha1 of installer: Thanks for this. * until 03/14 get all translation-only changed udebs uploaded *

Re: My cdebconf is escaped !

On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 11:57 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Regis Boudin wrote: * ejabberd. During postinst, cdebconf seems to wait indefinitely on the read() in confmodule.c, line 109. The problem only occurs if invoke-rc.d ejabberd start is called during the postinst script, though. Sounds

Re: My cdebconf is escaped !

On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 11:57 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Regis Boudin wrote: * ejabberd. During postinst, cdebconf seems to wait indefinitely on the read() in confmodule.c, line 109. The problem only occurs if invoke-rc.d ejabberd start is called during the postinst script, though. Sounds

My cdebconf is escaped !

Hi guys, So, after weeks of fighting and turning the problem around (while moving to Italy and starting a new job), I believe I have now finally implemented the escape CAPB (might not be optimal, but I believe it works). There is still some way to go before cdebconf can replace debconf 100%,

Bug#411585: pinging bug

On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:24:05 +, Nicholas Bamber wrote: Regis, Thanks for responding. Yes I had cdebconf installed for a while and I was trying to use it. I was motivated to try it out after having issues during the recent perl transition. If cdebconf could make perl

Bug#411585: pinging bug

Hi, On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 06:30 +, Nicholas Bamber wrote: severity 411585 important tag 411585 +confirmed thanks I am marking this bug as important and confirmed for various reasons. I am finding it with purge rather than unregister. However it seems likely that that purge is defined

Re: cdebconf 0.158 upload

, feedback will be very welcome. Regis On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:35:11 +0100, Regis Boudin wrote: Hi all, Sorry for not being very active at the moment, I'm quite busy between work and moving house... I'm planning to release and upload cdebconf cdebconf at the end of the week, unless someone

cdebconf 0.158 upload

Hi all, Sorry for not being very active at the moment, I'm quite busy between work and moving house... I'm planning to release and upload cdebconf cdebconf at the end of the week, unless someone disagrees before. I'm quite happy with the C part of it, but if someone wants to check that I'm

Re: Running cdebconf. Status and RFC

, and the whole thing should actually be usable, except for the lack of escape capability. Anyway, I'm quite keen to make an upload, though a quick double check before I do would be welcome. Regis On Fri, October 14, 2011 12:18, Regis Boudin wrote: Hi guys, Just to let you know, I've done some work

Re: Running cdebconf. Status and RFC

, Regis Boudin wrote: Hi Joey, On Thu, October 6, 2011 16:07, Joey Hess wrote: Regis Boudin wrote: * debconf/frontend: debconf and cdebconf have different names for the frontends (Readline, Dialog, Gnome, versus text, newt, gtk), which causes all sorts of issues for the transition. Any

Re: Running cdebconf. Status and RFC

Hi Joey, On Thu, October 6, 2011 16:07, Joey Hess wrote: Regis Boudin wrote: * debconf/frontend: debconf and cdebconf have different names for the frontends (Readline, Dialog, Gnome, versus text, newt, gtk), which causes all sorts of issues for the transition. Any objection to using

Running cdebconf. Status and RFC

Hi guys, So, unfortunately for you, I'm still working on cdebconf. I've fixed a couple of issues, though I would like some feedback before pushing some other changes I have. * debconf/frontend: debconf and cdebconf have different names for the frontends (Readline, Dialog, Gnome, versus text,

Bug#637289: installation-reports: Installation Debian Wheezy weekly-builds 08-08-2011 text=successful gui=not good

On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 13:14 +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: Hi all, I think the problem it's the same from the image i am sending. The attached image was from a installation in graphical mode, under virtualbox, image from the 11th August. Also tested in kvm, the same happens. Hi all, For

Re: cdebconf progress

On Wed, August 10, 2011 11:15, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 07:44:38AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: I, for one, would vote for uploading to unstable. It is time to test *now*. Closer to wheezy release might be too laste. Agreed, just go for unstable and (obviously) be

Re: cdebconf progress

On Wed, August 10, 2011 11:15, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 07:44:38AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: I, for one, would vote for uploading to unstable. It is time to test *now*. Closer to wheezy release might be too laste. Agreed, just go for unstable and (obviously) be

Re: cdebconf progress

Good morning, On Tue, August 9, 2011 06:44, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Regis Boudin (re...@boudin.name): Hi folks, I think I've pushed a fair number of patched to cdebconf already, and it is time to call for testing. The latest changes involve making cdebconf take changes to debconf

cdebconf progress

Hi folks, I think I've pushed a fair number of patched to cdebconf already, and it is time to call for testing. The latest changes involve making cdebconf take changes to debconf/priority, debconf/language, and debconf/frontend on calls to INPUT/GO as well as SET, and reworking frontend_new() to

Re: debconf and debconf/frontend

frontend_new(), the value from the database should be checked and take precedence over the default from the config file. Any comment on this ? Regis From f8db54347ccb9a55a9a280bd736ca240781d7a01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Regis Boudin re...@boudin.name Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:50:22 +0100

debconf and debconf/frontend

Hi all, So, with the small patch applied to debconf, I have now switched my laptop to use cdebconf with DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF. As a result, I can see some real life issues. The first one is the use of debconf/frontend. At every GO call, cdebconf checks its value, and if it's different from the

Debconf : Patch for running cdebconf

: Regis Boudin re...@boudin.name Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:15:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] call cdebconf versions if the env variable is set --- dpkg-preconfigure |4 dpkg-reconfigure |4 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/dpkg-preconfigure b/dpkg

Bug#634077: cdebconf: [text] should at least provide an option to numerate per-line

Hi Samuel, On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 17:43 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Package: cdebconf Version: 0.156 Severity: normal Hello, Currently, cdebconf would output choices in this order: 1. Foo 3. Baz 2. Bar 4. Xyzzy Speech synthesis does not know about columns, and will speak 1. Foo

Bug#634077: cdebconf: [text] should at least provide an option to numerate per-line

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 23:46 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Regis Boudin, le Tue 19 Jul 2011 22:40:55 +0100, a écrit : Reading this bug report with #634076, wouldn't it make more sense to actually be 1: Foo, 2: Bar 3: Baz, 4: Xyzzy for the speech synthesis tool to pause between Foo

Re: cdebconf 0.156, and next

On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 11:52 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Regis Boudin wrote: Hello good people, Having uploaded cdebconf 0.156 yesterday, I started pushing a few patches, for packaging and implementing features. More specifically, what's now in git should correctly guess the name

cdebconf 0.156, and next

Hello good people, Having uploaded cdebconf 0.156 yesterday, I started pushing a few patches, for packaging and implementing features. More specifically, what's now in git should correctly guess the name of the package being configured, load the templates file, run the .config file, and create

Re: Time for a cdebconf upload ?

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 06:56 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Regis Boudin (re...@boudin.name): Hi folks, I noticed that today, gcc 4.6.1 was uploaded, which means the current cdebconf 0.155 will FTBFS. Is it time to release and upload 0.156 to fix this issue ? I believe

Time for a cdebconf upload ?

Hi folks, I noticed that today, doko uploaded gcc 4.6.1, which means the current cdebconf 0.155 will FTBFS. Is it time to release and upload 0.156 which fixes this issue ? I believe the breaking of tasksel on hurd should now be fixed as well. I also have bunch of patches I would like to try and

Time for a cdebconf upload ?

Hi folks, I noticed that today, gcc 4.6.1 was uploaded, which means the current cdebconf 0.155 will FTBFS. Is it time to release and upload 0.156 to fix this issue ? I believe the breaking of tasksel on Hurd should be fixed as well, now. I also have bunch of patches I would like to try and push

Re: Re: Time for a cdebconf upload ?

Hi Samuel, Which breaking of tasksel on hurd? Sorry, forgot to mention, it's #628084, which you reported last month. Regis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Re: Time for a cdebconf upload ?

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 22:14 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Regis Boudin, le Mon 27 Jun 2011 20:44:21 +0100, a écrit : Which breaking of tasksel on hurd? Sorry, forgot to mention, it's #628084, which you reported last month. Ah, I don't believe the issue is only on the hurd

Re: Re: Time for a cdebconf upload ?

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 22:30 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Regis Boudin, le Mon 27 Jun 2011 21:28:26 +0100, a écrit : On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 22:14 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Regis Boudin, le Mon 27 Jun 2011 20:44:21 +0100, a écrit : Which breaking of tasksel on hurd? Sorry

Re: Re: Time for a cdebconf upload ?

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 21:37 +0100, Regis Boudin wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 22:30 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Regis Boudin, le Mon 27 Jun 2011 21:28:26 +0100, a écrit : On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 22:14 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Regis Boudin, le Mon 27 Jun 2011 20:44:21 +0100, a écrit

Bug#442287: dpkg-reconfigure segfaults : cause found

Hi, After some investigation, I finally found what was happening in this bug. It follows this sequence : - template_db_new(), question_db_new(). At this point, both dbs are empty. - frontend_new() creates a new frontend as g_frontend, based on the --frontend parameter or config file. It tries

Bug#451130: Patch suggestion

any data at that point, the file is empty anyway). As usual, any comment or feedback to help getting the patch applied would be more than welcome. Regis From bae4706120f05b4ba528071490f86474a022b626 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Regis Boudin re...@boudin.name Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:47:42 +0100

Bug#628084: cdebconf: tasksel debconf does not start in d-i

Hi Samuel, I believe the issue should have been fixed in git, now, thanks for pointing to the additional bug, it helped find another similar one. Could you check if tasksel works again with a new snapshot, to confirm the problem is actually gone ? Thanks, Regis On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 03:02

Bug#628084: cdebconf: tasksel debconf does not start in d-i

On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 22:44 +0100, Regis Boudin wrote: You're also right about the loop, and I'll submit a patch as well as soon as I get access to something more practical than my phone for that. What is the status of this, as well as the missing space in Flags:\n output? I have

Bug#628084: cdebconf: tasksel debconf does not start in d-i

Hi Joey, On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 12:31 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Régis Boudin wrote: Thanks for the report. Since I made this path I'll take all the blame for it. The return without value was already noticed and I sent a patch for it. I've applied that. Thanks. You're also right about

Bug#537535: debconf-set-selections patch

Hi Christian, On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 14:19 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Regis Boudin (re...@boudin.name): Hi folks, I haven't disappeared yet, still working on cdebconf, and should hopefully have more time to hack on it in a couple of days. Here is a patch implementing

cdebconf patches

will be needed in dpkg-preconfigure and debconf, so having it shared sounds like a good idea. Any feedback or comment would as usual be very welcome. Regis From 30e7d6a838a2936264b39871a963b544f85f2987 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Regis Boudin re...@boudin.name Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 23:27:26 +0100

Bug#537535: debconf-set-selections patch

(0.156) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [ Regis Boudin ] - * Add cdebconf versions of debconf-escape, debconf-get-selections, and -debconf-show. (Initial debconf-escape code by Colin Watson.) + * Add cdebconf versions of debconf-escape, debconf-get-selections, +debconf-set-selections

Bug#625317: cdebconf: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror

. diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index b19ea14..2b3cfc8 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ cdebconf (0.156) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [ Regis Boudin ] * Add cdebconf versions of debconf-escape, debconf-get-selections, and debconf-show

Bug#537535: Offer for help, first patch

Hi Joey, Sorry for the delay. Don't worry, I'm not going to disappear after offering help, there's just a lot going on real-life wise. On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 19:40 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Regis Boudin wrote: Last question, how would you like me to provide patche(s) ? Is one for each utility

Bug#537535: Offer for help, first patch

On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 13:15 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: It looks ok to apply to me, so I did. Thanks ! Though I just pulled, looks like you might have forgotten to add the new files. Regis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#537535: Offer for help, first patch

Hi Joey First, I took a stab at implementing debconf-get-selections, see patch attached. It seems to work, but any feedback would be very welcome. I added entries to cdebconf.conf-dist for the --installer option, which I hope is the correct way. That's probably a good clean way to do

Bug#537535: Offer for help, first patch

Hi guys, I'd like to try and help with the switch to cdebconf as default, and decided to start by having a look at this bug. First, I took a stab at implementing debconf-get-selections, see patch attached. It seems to work, but any feedback would be very welcome. I added entries to

Bug#408228: Is this bug still valid ?

Hi, Now that the GTK frontend has been split out to cdebconf-gtk, cdebconf itself doesn't have any direct or indirect dependency on x11-common, which I believe means that this dependency cycle is gone. As a consequence, isn't it safe to close this bug, now ? Apologies if I got it wrong, please