Re: Another job for the QA team

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> > In my new version of the fvwm package (2.2-x), there have been radical
> > changes.  The postinst will do its best not to irrevocably retrieve
> > the information it expects to currently be present, but it warns the
> > installer that certain information may be lost, thus giving them a
> > chance to rescue it first.  I do not think that this is an
> > unreasonable query, but better ways of handling it are always welcome.
> 
> Please ensure that the user is not bothered if he makes a new installation
> such as a fresh slink/potato installation but only sees this message
> when upgrading from a proper older version to the current one.

Have done.

> > A more questionable example: "Should I make this the default window
> > manager?"  We could always do so be default, but since the sysadmin
> > may have already chosed the default window manager, they may not like
> > this behaviour.
> 
> Something has to be done here.  I'm not sure what.  But being asked
> everytime I install any wm, that sucks.

I totally agree.  I too don't know what, though.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
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