Bug#600425: cdebconf: text frontend for selection isn't documented enough

[Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org>]

Hi,

i tried to reproduce it, i booted with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text but everytime i 
get:

Prompt '?' for help, default=1 10>

tasks 1 and 10 selected by default. 
After entering 8 9 10 at the prompt d-i installed the 3 tasks.

As the default suggests tasks are entered separated by spaces.
Mentioning that in the help would, indeed, be an improvement. 

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Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards,

Miguel Figueiredo
http://www.DebianPT.org
A Domingo 17 Outubro 2010 02:59:10 Samuel Thibault você escreveu:
> Package: cdebconf
> Version: 0.150
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> When using the text frontend for e.g. tasksel, the way to select items
> is really clear: what is displayed is
> 
> Choose software to install:
>  1. Graphical desktop environment 5. File server 9. Laptop
>  2. Web server 6. Mail server 10. Standard system utilities [*]
>  3. Print server 7. SQL database
>  4. DNS server 8. SSH server
> Prompt: '?' for help, default 10
> 
> '?' gives
> 
> KEYSTROKES:
>  ? Display this help message
>  ! Select an empty entry
> 
> This doesn't explain how to select several items at a time.
> 
> Samuel
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
> 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.35 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash