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Bug#410889: package update hint needed for outdated discover



Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 1:7.1.0-11

Hello,

a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg yields a "graphics card autodetect?"
prompt which failed on my machine since it's somewhat new (< 1 year):

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 3010
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
        Memory at e0400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        I/O ports at 10c0 [size=8]
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at e0480000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

In the autodetection failure dialog, there was no sufficiently
direct hint that one should upgrade all discover related packages
(in the current package it's discover1 and, most importantly,
discover1-data) to get a newer database.

It simply said that discover does not seem to know this device
(really not a helpful help text, I'd say),
but what it should have said instead is that the *currently installed
package version* of discover packages does not know this device yet.
It's important to mention that the currently installed state is
lacking, not the package per se. Or alternatively mention that one
should attempt to upgrade discover related packages to newest version.

One shouldn't write too much prose in such a help dialog of course,
but at least a tiny but obvious hint towards discover upgrading
is clearly missing.

Thanks,

Andreas Mohr



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