Bug#224131: netcfg: Changes to templates for clearer choices offered

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>]

Am Die, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 09:56:
> Package: netcfg
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> I propose the attached changes to debconf tempaltes for netcfg. Basically,
> this means changing the "Dynamic addressing" choice by "Automatic network
> configuration" choice, which is probably easier to understand (and closer to
> reality).
> 
> The wording for "static addressing" also changes to "Manual configuration".
I agree with these changes, but aren't we in string freeze now? We
should probably delay this chance until after the string freeze.

> 
> The proposed changes impacts the netcfg/get_method choices, so changes to
> scripts handling the user choices are probably needed.
Indeed. Does somebody know how this could be avoided?

gaudenz
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux mykerinos 2.6.0-test11 #1 Fri Dec 12 10:25:56 CET 2003 i686
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
>