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Bug#321722: marked as done (debconf dialog asks confusing stuff)

Your message dated Wed, 9 Feb 2011 16:31:32 +0100
with message-id <201102091631.34569.odyx@debian.org>
and subject line foomatic-filters-ppds: Closing some bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #321722,
regarding debconf dialog asks confusing stuff
to be marked as done.

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Package: foomatic-filters-ppds
Severity: normal

Hello,

as a normal stupid user (when it comes to printing) I tried to setup
cups. Let me express what goes wrong from new users point of view.

Your package was suggested while installing cups. So why not, a database
that may know my settings sounds good. But what did I get? A dozen of
debconf dialogs that ask stuff that does not have anything to do with
reality.

Why does it ask about which queue I am using while I am installing
_CUPS_? Fsck that. To be userfriendly, it should find out. If it does
not know for sure, it should at least place an expected default.
Instead, it seems to be a list with some random entry, hardly documented
what each of them means and which do you know. Crap.

There is a question about the interfaces. What is ipp? What is serial?
More than that, there is no serial port at all here. Damn, check that
and do not suggest unpossible options to the user.

gs question is also a such candidate. There is only one gs and only one
going installed. Why do you suggest X alternatives? What do they mean?
What hides behind the "custom setting"? Where can I customise it. What
does expect me when I choose it?

Same applies for the accounting questions. I guess it asks it also if
CUPS is not beeing installed.

Please read the DIN EN ISO 9241 part 9 and following to learn the basic
rules for human interace design. And maybe VDI 3850 if you can get that.

Why do we need such dialogs at all if they do not help much? Just for
the legacy "we have to use debconf" reason?

Regards,
Eduard.


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Version: 4.0.4-2

Hi,

You reported this bug against the foomatic-filters-ppds package. Since version 
4.0.4-2, this package is empty. Furthermore, the Debian project just released 
Debian Squeeze, which ships this foomatic-filters-ppds.

So I am hereby closing the bugs concerning the contents of foomatic-filters-ppds 
as "solved by the version currently in Squeeze.

If your issue is still a valid one, please say so and we'll find a package to 
reassign the bug to.

Thanks for your understanding and cheers,

OdyX

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Didier Raboud, proud Debian Developer.
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odyx@debian.org

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