Re: Online help
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 07:21:35AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> I like this...a lot. The implementation you propose is indeed very
> simple and doesn't seem really invasive (except for the impact of
> translations of large amount of texts).
Dependent on what online help we actually add, of course ...
> Do you think that such support could also be added to debconf
> itself? After all, such help system would also be great for regular
> packages that use debconf (several of them try to explain everything
> in their debconf templates...which is always tricky when the
> dimensioning reference is a 80x25 screen).
If anything it's probably easier to implement in debconf. I'd be happy
to give it a shot there if there's general agreement on the design.
> If that isn't possible, that could be an interesting motivation to
> finally do what's hosed for years: replacing debconf by cdebconf. The
> prerequisite of having all debconf-using packages properly depend on
> debconf|debconf-2.0 was achieved for lenny.
Joey filed a number of other blocking bugs. Maybe we should beat on
those at DebCamp.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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