Installed debconf 0.5.00 (all source i386)
Installed:
debconf-utils_0.5.00_all.deb
to dists/woody/main/binary-all/devel/debconf-utils_0.5.00.deb
replacing debconf-utils_0.4.11.deb
debconf_0.5.00.dsc
to dists/woody/main/source/admin/debconf_0.5.00.dsc
replacing debconf_0.4.11.dsc
debconf_0.5.00_i386.deb
to dists/woody/main/binary-i386/admin/debconf_0.5.00.deb
replacing debconf_0.4.11.deb
debconf-doc_0.5.00_all.deb
to dists/woody/main/binary-all/admin/debconf-doc_0.5.00.deb
replacing debconf-doc_0.4.11.deb
debconf_0.5.00.tar.gz
to dists/woody/main/source/admin/debconf_0.5.00.tar.gz
replacing debconf_0.4.11.tar.gz
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:07:19 -0800
Source: debconf
Binary: debconf-utils debconf debconf-doc
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 0.5.00
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Changed-By: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Description:
debconf - Debian configuration management system
debconf-doc - Debian configuration management system documentation
debconf-utils - Debconf utilities
Changes:
debconf (0.5.00) unstable; urgency=low
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* Modified all the frontends to deal with this scenario:
A config scripts asks questions a, b, and c. a and c are asked at
priorities that make them visible, b is not. The user gets to c,
and backs up.
Previously, debconf would loop back to b, skip it again, and return the
user to c. Now it is smart enough to go back to a once b is skipped.
* Changed how debconf keeps track of what questions have been seen
before. Now it tracks this info on a per confmodule basis, and when a
confmodule terminates, sets the "seen" flag on (almost) all questions
that were displayed. Questions that are shown multiple times during the
same confmodule run will indeed appear multiple times[1]. This makes
supporting backing up trivial; it means that people have no excuse to
play around with the isdefault flag anymore, which they almost always
got wrong anyway; and it renames that flag to the much clearer "seen".
* It is possible that this change breaks confmodules that expect to be able
to display the same question twice with impunity.
* NOTE NOTE NOTE if you use this new behavior, make sure to depend on
debconf (>= 0.5)!
* The isdefault flag will continue to work, it is just mapped to the
inverse of the "seen" flag now, and deprecated.
* All the frontends were reworked to various degrees to make this work,
and I got rid of a fair bit of redundant code too.
* Modified debconf's own config script to use these features and sure
enough, it looks quite clean and simple now.
* Updated all docs.
* Added nasty code to transition from the isdefault flag to the new flag.
* Fixed backup in dialog frontend, 255 == -1
* Just to make life more interesting, I made debconf depend on perl 5.6;
which allows me to remove all my crud working around bugs in perl
5.005, and lets me use lots of nifty 5.6-specific features, but not,
sadly, lvalues.
* Probability of all this breaking something: 99.99%
.
[1] Unless they are to be displayed in the same block.
Files:
f77a42bdc14f3596aee92dd27e54cf1b 731 admin standard debconf_0.5.00.dsc
340ee45e272a3da8ecc420dd319b2a93 175104 admin standard debconf_0.5.00.tar.gz
a61c240496df5e0b19e07c99eb2759db 114332 admin standard debconf-doc_0.5.00_all.deb
c342647d127ce50a61f2e536c45de8d5 48674 admin standard debconf-utils_0.5.00_all.deb
42827f10825c803286a146b9f5a8ba8b 74058 admin standard debconf_0.5.00_i386.deb
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