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Bug#798373: netcfg: Change default wireless networking type from WEP to WPA



Quoting Chris Lamb (lamby@debian.org):
> Hey,
> 
> > However, Default: should match the choice you want, but in Choices-C,
> > therefore it should be "wpa" alone.
> 
> Thanks :)
> 
> So, I was curious about Choices-C but the only documentation I could
> easily find about it was in debconf-devel(7) which states that if
> DEBCONF_C_VALUES is set, the frontend will display  the values from this
> field. Whilst I've got your attention - what's the purpose of it?


They allow having values returned by db_get to be short and
unexplanatory, so that they can be stored in a configuration file or
use in a script. 

However, more  detailed choices values can be given in "Choices" so
that users of English localization environments can get easier to
understand choices.

For instance, for a language choice:

Choices-c: en,fr
__Choices: English, French

Users of en_GB or en_US localizations will see:

* English
* French

and only in unlocalized environments, you get the following choice:

* en
* fr

In short, they allow having an English "translation" of choices.


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