Re: Bug#191627: whiptail: Upgrade renders modconf unusable
On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 04:11:32PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> 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.
rotflol, now that's what I call valid circular logic.
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