Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-06 Thread Simon Richter
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: The first substitution worked, the second didn't. I suspect this may be because I'm running testing instead of unstable at home. I'll try unstable debconf now. That sounds similar to a bug I fixed in 0.9.36. Indeed the version from unstable works.

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-05 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: [Substitution in long description] I see nothing wrong with this, it should work. Hrm, I just tested with a description of: Description: ${hostname} ${hostname} long The first substitution worked, the second didn't. I suspect this may be because I'm

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-05 Thread Joey Hess
Simon Richter wrote: Hrm, I just tested with a description of: Description: ${hostname} ${hostname} long The first substitution worked, the second didn't. I suspect this may be because I'm running testing instead of unstable at home. I'll try unstable debconf now. That sounds similar

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Simon Richter wrote: The templates file says: Description: uprecords.cgi has been installed into the webtree You have installed the uprecords-cgi package. That means that a new CGI script has been installed, which is now visible to the outside world as

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-04 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: Perhaps hostname --fqdn is failing? Try DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer Hrm, the hostname command works (as verified by echo $hostname). I'll try the debug option as soon as I get home. Simon -- GPG public key available from

Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-03 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, While debconfiscating :-) uptimed, I also added a note to uprecords-cgi so that the sysadmin would be informed where the CGI would show up in his webtree. In this note, I'd like to use substitution, but this apparently doesn't work. The templates file says: Description: uprecords.cgi has

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-03 Thread Simon Richter
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Simon Richter wrote: While debconfiscating :-) uptimed, I also added a note to uprecords-cgi so that the sysadmin would be informed where the CGI would show up in his webtree. In this note, I'd like to use substitution, but this apparently doesn't work. Addendum: The