"fset seen" issues
Joey and I had a discussion on IRC today, and we agreed on what we think is a
relatively sane way to handle the "fset seen" issues:
No package should "fset seen=false" unless it has a very good reason -- that
is, it has to show some critical error message or such. However, there are
also situations where a user might really want to change his/her mind about
some choice -- that is, when selecting a menu item for the second time. This
is more or less equivalent to "dpkg-reconfigure <package>", which could and
should be treated specially.
So, the proposal is: When main-menu sees that a user selects a menu item for
the second time, it sets some kind of debconf variable (say,
"debconf/reconfiguring" to "true") which makes cdebconf ignore all seen flags
(the priority stays the same). This eliminates the need for udebs to fset
seen=false manually, which is an ugly hack anyhow :-)
Note that this would also require proper handling of backing up by cdebconf,
but once that is in place, it should also be a lot cleaner than the scripts
manually setting seen flags all over the place. :-)
Comments, anybody? Something I missed? :-)
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