Bug#922279: debconf: Can't select long choices in dialog (whiptail) multiselect

2019-02-26 Thread Kevin Locke
On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 09:30 +, Colin Watson wrote: > Thanks. At some point it would be nice to find a way to force the > choice texts to be unambiguous without overflow, e.g. by prepending or > appending a number. But this works as far as it goes and fixes an IMO > serious bug, so I've just

Bug#922279: debconf: Can't select long choices in dialog (whiptail) multiselect

2019-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 09:44:46AM -0700, Kevin Locke wrote: > On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 13:52 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:51:17PM -0700, Kevin Locke wrote: > >> The problem is that the ellipsized choice text can't be mapped back > >> to the choice value. I have attached

Bug#922279: debconf: Can't select long choices in dialog (whiptail) multiselect

2019-02-14 Thread Kevin Locke
On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 13:52 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:51:17PM -0700, Kevin Locke wrote: >> The problem is that the ellipsized choice text can't be mapped back >> to the choice value. I have attached a patch which adds this >> mapping. > > Oh dear. Thanks - but

Bug#922279: debconf: Can't select long choices in dialog (whiptail) multiselect

2019-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:51:17PM -0700, Kevin Locke wrote: > Note that systemd does not appear in the output regardless of whether or > not the option is selected. The problem is that the ellipsized choice > text can't be mapped back to the choice value. I have attached a patch > which adds

Bug#922279: debconf: Can't select long choices in dialog (whiptail) multiselect

2019-02-13 Thread Kevin Locke
Package: debconf Version: 1.5.70 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, After upgrading libpam-cap, systemd user sessions stopped working. I traced the problem to pam-auth-update, which uses debconf to manage the PAM configuration. Using the dialog frontend with whiptail in a terminal