Joey Hess wrote:
Christian Perrier wrote:
In short, a note should only be used for IMPORTANT stuff, so actually
all debconf notes should be priority highor should not exist!
It's better to simply remove them all: If it's an error, use the new
error data type, which will always be
On Monday 18 September 2006 16:36, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Frankly, the kernel's You NEED to restart your computer SOON message
is a good example, if it's telling the truth. But that cheats by not
using debconf.
Oh yes it does!
When have you last done a kernel upgrade in testing/unstable? ;-)
Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 18 September 2006 16:36, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Frankly, the kernel's You NEED to restart your computer SOON message
is a good example, if it's telling the truth. But that cheats by not
using debconf.
Oh yes it does!
When have you last done a kernel upgrade in
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:23:31 +0200, Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Monday 18 September 2006 16:36, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Frankly, the kernel's You NEED to restart your computer SOON
message is a good example, if it's telling the truth.
Debian logcheck Team logcheck-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
logcheck-database -- config:17 logcheck-database/standard-rename-note
removed in svn, will disappear on next upload.
Debian logcheck Team logcheck-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
logcheck -- config:14 logcheck/install-note
Le jeudi 14 septembre 2006 à 19:41 +0200, Christian Perrier a écrit :
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gtk2-engines-spherecrystal -- config:22
gtk2-engines/restart_gtk_apps_for_svg
This note appears to warn the user that he has to restart applications,
and only when the script is *sure*
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 07:41:53PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
As a conclusion and combining both, I would really like to unsderstand
why so many fellow developers insist on using LOW priority NOTES in
their debconf templates and use them in maintainer scripts.
Speaking for my own
For the packages warning about device files the reason is likely to be
policy section 10.6 Device files which requires notification to the
user when creating device files and suggests using a low priority
Debconf message to do this:
| If a package needs any special device files that
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