Re: Bug#427104: still apears to be broken with d-i
Hi,
On Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 09:25:27 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> 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.
My plan is to release 4.0r2 in calender week 41 or 42 of the christian
calendar. If you can make sure everything is done by that date, go
ahead.
Luk, Julien, any complains about that?
Greetings
Martin
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