On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:18:48AM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > I have to agree with the submitted of this bug. In fact, I came to the > BTS to see if anyone else had reported this "new" annoying behavior, > so I am glad I am not the only one annoyed by this. Not much I can do it about it. People were annoyed by the old behavior too. > There used to be an question in debconf that said something like "do > you want to handle your XF86Config-4 via debconf? (Yes or No)". Yup, those are gone, considered a bad idea by the Debian Developers. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01145.html ...and read the entire thread. Also see: /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/NEWS.Debian /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz (If you had apt-listchanges installed, you'd already have seen the former file.) > That question seems to be gone, and now the maintainer scripts try to > manage your configuration for you, regardless of the administrator's > preference. Incorrect. Please read: /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/NEWS.Debian /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz > In addition, when debconf (dexconf?) is asking all those questions > about your X configuration (video card, video memory, mouse type, > modules to load, monitor info., etc.) there's no way to cancel. There is if your debconf frontend support it. I don't think the dialog frontend does. > I have a working XF86Config-4, and don't want anyone messing with it, > nor do I want to be asked a lot of configuration questions about > something that works. If I get asked the questions I'd like to have > the option to skip to the end. I was just hitting <Enter> in all this > questions. I am glad my XF86Config was not overwritten. Please read: /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/NEWS.Debian /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz > One final comment: on another machine, when I upgraded yesterday the X > packages, my XF86Config-4 got overwritten. The old one was saved with > a .old (or something like that) extension. The new XF86Config-4 file > was similar, and I noticed it was automatic generated. Seems like it > did hardware auto-detection. I didn't appreciate the maintainer scripts > overwritten my XF86Config-4 with a guess configuration and without > telling me anything. It was ".dpkg-old". Please read: /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/NEWS.Debian /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz > Just wanted to offer my experiences with upgrades to the latest > versions of the X packages. Hope this helps. Please read: /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/NEWS.Debian /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz -- G. Branden Robinson | Yesterday upon the stair, Debian GNU/Linux | I met a man who wasn't there. branden@debian.org | He wasn't there again today, http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | I think he's from the CIA.
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