Bug#427832: developers-reference: Should no longer discourage the use of "error" debconf templates
Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.3.8
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The Developer's Reference should no longer discourage the use of "error"
debconf templates as these are supported since debconf 1.4.69 (pre-etch
version).
This template type should even be encouraged when needing some special user
attention.
Patch attached. Please check the wording.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
developers-reference depends on no packages.
Versions of packages developers-reference recommends:
ii debian-policy 3.7.2.2 Debian Policy Manual and related d
-- no debconf information
--- developers-reference.sgml 2007-06-06 20:28:43.172100891 +0200
+++ developers-reference.sgml.old 2007-06-06 20:26:32.678380132 +0200
@@ -4383,12 +4383,17 @@
<sect3>error:
<p>
-This type is designed to handle error messages. It is mostly similar to
+<strong>THIS TEMPLATE TYPE IS NOT HANDLED BY DEBCONF YET.</strong>
+ <p>
+It has been added to cdebconf, the C version of debconf, first used in
+the Debian Installer.
+ <p>
+Please do not use it unless debconf supports it.
+ <p>
+This type is designed to handle error message. It is mostly similar to
the "note" type. Frontends may present it differently (for instance,
the dialog frontend of cdebconf draws a red screen instead of the
usual blue one).
- <p>
-It is recommended to use this type for any message that needs user attentionfor a correction of any kind.
<sect2>Description: short and extended description
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