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Re: Stupid use of debconf award



On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 08:45:04PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
[...]
> So my complaints list about debconf questions is:
> 1. Bad grammar or spelling (in the English templates);
> 2. Questions/notes that assume too much background knowledge; and
> 3. Questions/notes which are just too trivial to waste time with.

4. Boolean questions which assume that Yes/No words are displayed.

How choices are rendered depend on the frontend in use, e.g. if boolean
questions are rendered via a radio button, nothing is printed.
See xinetd for instance.

Denis



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