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Re: Bug#427104: still apears to be broken with d-i



On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:32:11PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> In other words: everybody who installs the laptop task gets a useless
> and confusing question. In joeys words:
> 
> > ... the laptop task is broken, and something has to be done about this. 
> 
> > It's sort of on the edge between a cosmetic problem and a serious bug, 
> > so the best way to make sure it's accepted will be to have a good and 
> > clear patch.
> 
> The patch below will set a flag on a debconf question to signal we disabled 
> the check in d-i and we should not ask the question. In posinst the flag is
> cleared so that in the further life of the package the test will be done.
> [...]

I confirm that this patch fixes the problem and would be a good addition
to the next point release: I really have seen quite a lot of users being
confused by the warning (thus the recent addition of this issue to the
errata list).

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
lunar@debian.org                    : :Ⓐ  :  # apt-get install anarchism
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