Re: [PATCH 1/1] Use the "Failed-Config" state instead of the synonymous halfconfigured

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 19:00:28 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 00:38:12 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > These terms are synonyms. dpkg and dselect use halfconfigured
> > internally and Failed-config when talking to the user. This patch
> > ensures that policy uses the same term as dpkg does when talking to
> > the user ("Failed-Config") for consistency.
> 
> Actually I think the term Failed-Config is the less used one. The dpkg
> man page refers to half-configured. On error or debug messages dpkg
> also uses half-configured. The same for stuff like “dpkg --audit”, on
> the log file or on the status-fd output.
> 
> dselect help screens also use half-configured.
> 
> Checking the sources I only see two instance of “Failed config”, one
> in “dpkg --query” output header as Failed-cfg and the other one in
> dselect when printing the status string  as “failed config”.
> 
> So it might make more sense to just get rid of the “Failed config”
> string instead, which is the one creating confusion.

Ok, so went ahead and fixed this in dpkg git's tree:

  <http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=6d784ebc>

regards,
guillem