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Bug#570755: marked as done (installation-reports: Continue & Back buttons switched on "archive not found screen")

Your message dated Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:34:35 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#570755: installation-reports: Continue & Back buttons switched on "archive not found screen"
has caused the Debian Bug report #570755,
regarding installation-reports: Continue & Back buttons switched on "archive not found screen"
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Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

A few days ago I installed debian-504-amd64-netinst.iso (md5sum:
1781299ae37a2b99b75aefa39a8ee773) from
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ on a new Dell laptop. Due to some
proxy configuration I did not have a net conection even though
dhclient reported one. Hence at the stage when download locations are
added to apt.conf the installer reported a failure (please note that I
did the install in German and roughly translated all strings back):

[!!] Configuring the package manager
Invalid archive mirror
....

After the explantion (which I did not copy above) I got two choices: 
Continue and Back.

Continue leads to the screen for selection a country for the debian
archive mirror and after intermediate screens back to the one above
with the error message

Back returns the message that no archive mirror can be found and the
installation continues.

As you can see by my wording, the two buttons seem to be switched,
i.e. pressing "back" activates the "continue" mechanism while pressing
"continue" returns back to the selection process for archive mirrors.

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reassign 570755 choose-mirror
thanks

Hi Helge,

On Sunday 21 February 2010, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Continue leads to the screen for selection a country for the debian
> archive mirror and after intermediate screens back to the one above
> with the error message
>
> Back returns the message that no archive mirror can be found and the
> installation continues.

Even though it may seem inconsistent, it is not.

To understand it you have to realize that choose-mirror can be run in two 
ways:
1) directly from the main menu, as in netboot and businesscard CD installs
2) from apt-setup, as in netinst CD and full CD and DVD installs

Your case is 2).

The meaning of <Continue> and <Go Back> in both cases is:
- Continue: continue with mirror selection, i.e: select a different mirror
  and try again
- Go Back: abort mirror selection

In case 1) Go Back would return you to the main menu.

In your case 2) it returns you to where it came from: to apt-setup.
But it does not simply continue apt-setup as you suggest! apt-setup "sees" 
that mirror selection was aborted and thus asks for confirmation if you 
really want to continue without selecting a mirror (and if you answer no, 
it will start choose-mirror again).

The buttons are also consistent with how they are used in other error 
dialogs. <Continue> simply means "I've read the dialog, proceed".

So IMO the buttons are correct and consistent. I'm closing the report, but 
if you wish to respond you can still reply.

Cheers,
FJP

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