Re: Bug#427104: still apears to be broken with d-i
Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> writes:
> 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).
Besides, this is the most simple solution possible since the another
one would be to write a conversor for devfs device names in shell and
it would be much more error prone.
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