anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi all, is anyone using interactive bugscripts? I mean scripts in /usr/share/bug/ which interactively demand answers from the user. I made a quick search on my system and I only found the texlive packages using getkey to force a user to read a text before the script is executed. In that case

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Frans Pop
Bastian Venthur wrote: is anyone using interactive bugscripts? I mean scripts in /usr/share/bug/ which interactively demand answers from the user. The installation-reports script is quite interactive. Why do you continue to want to cripple bug reporting because of reportbug-ng? I appreciate

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Bastian Venthur wrote: is anyone using interactive bugscripts? I mean scripts in /usr/share/bug/ which interactively demand answers from the user. I made a quick search on my system and I only found the texlive packages using getkey to force a user to read a text before the script is executed

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Frans Pop schrieb: Bastian Venthur wrote: is anyone using interactive bugscripts? I mean scripts in /usr/share/bug/ which interactively demand answers from the user. The installation-reports script is quite interactive. Ok. Why do you continue to want to cripple bug reporting because

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 08 juin 2009 à 14:06 +0200, Bastian Venthur a écrit : The installation-reports script is quite interactive. Ok. If no packages (or only a handfull) used this feature than asking to depreciate this feature would have been an option, but in this case I have to see how I can handle

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Josselin Mouette schrieb: From now on, I’d say we can either: * force such scripts to use an abstraction layer to prompt the user; Wouldn't it be possible to use debconf for that? It already has interfaces for different user interfaces (TTBOMK including KDE, GNOME, Dialog

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Josselin Mouette schrieb: Le lundi 08 juin 2009 à 14:06 +0200, Bastian Venthur a écrit : The installation-reports script is quite interactive. Ok. If no packages (or only a handfull) used this feature than asking to depreciate this feature would have been an option, but in this case I have

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 08 juin 2009 à 14:31 +0200, Bastian Venthur a écrit : My medium term solution is to make rng depend on xterm and use that instead of x-terminal-emulator. xterm -e cmd seems to return only if the cmd returned. Why not use vte (or whatever is the Qt equivalent) instead? -- .''`.

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Josselin Mouette schrieb: Le lundi 08 juin 2009 à 14:31 +0200, Bastian Venthur a écrit : My medium term solution is to make rng depend on xterm and use that instead of x-terminal-emulator. xterm -e cmd seems to return only if the cmd returned. Why not use vte (or whatever is the Qt

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:24:15PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Bastian Venthur wrote: is anyone using interactive bugscripts? I mean scripts in /usr/share/bug/ which interactively demand answers from the user. The installation-reports script is quite interactive. Maybe that is a special case