Re: Bug#191627: whiptail: Upgrade renders modconf unusable
It appears that modconf is setting the --menu width, height, menu-height
to be 0 0 0.
On dialog, this sets them to "autosize", as documented in dialog(1).
This feature is not present in whiptail. (Not mentioned in whiptail(1),
in particular).
For sizes too small whiptail segfaults. For marginal sizes it gives
floating point exceptions. This isn't nice and needs to be fixed anyway.
Its sort of a modconf problem, so i've CC: 'd this to the modconf
maintainer(s), who turn out to be the Boot Floppies team.
Boot floppies are not supported for this version of whiptail, anyway, so
it'll probably become the Debian Installer Teams responsibility.
Which probably means mine. Damn.
The best solution is probably to implement autosizing in whiptail. I'll
get down to it tonight, but don't expect a fix in the next 24 hours or
so.
Regards,
Alastair McKinstry
On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 11:18, Lucas Moulin wrote:
> Package: whiptail
> Version: 0.51.4-1
> Severity: normal
>
> After upgrading to version 0.51.4-2, modconf no longers works. All I got
> is a blue term where I can't see any menus. Hitting Enter right away
> quits modconf, and leaves me with an unusable shell where I can't see
> what I'm typing. Downgrading to 0.51.4-1 seems to solve the problem.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux loutre 2.4.20-1-686 #1 Sat Mar 22 13:16:21 EST 2003 i686
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro
>
> Versions of packages whiptail depends on:
> ii libc6 2.3.1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii libnewt0.51 0.51.4-2 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - tex
> ii libpopt0 1.6.4-2 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
> ii slang1a-utf8 1.4.5-2 The S-Lang programming library wit
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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