Re: Bug#169979: kdrill package in a very bad shape
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:47:12AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > But you might debate that point,with the debian person who filed a bug
> > suggesting that I needed to do it with debconf in the first place ;-)
>
> This had been debated several times on debian-devel, see eg.
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200401/msg01686.html
> and has been clarified in debconf-devel(7):
> note ...
> It's best to use these only for warning about very
> serious problems.
Well.. it IS a very serious problem. It is very frustrating for a user to
upgrade, and suddenly have the program not function, and have no idea why,
or how to fix it.
In theory, the "note" should only be displayed by debconf if the user was
upgrading from one of the really old versions.
So if there is no need for the note, it will never cause an action to
take place.
So IMO, it is one of the few really good cases to use it.
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