Bug#229097: debconf: should tell the user the file is not going to be rewritten earlier
Package: xserver-xfree86
Version: 4.2.1-12.1
Severity: minor
When doing a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, I went
through the LONG set of answers and then after the last one, I was told:
"XF86Config-4 was modified not writting it".
This is awful. I think this message should be at the beginning, not at
the end, after I had spent about 5 minutes selecting the options.
Also, it would be nice if the message that's in the file (I found it
afterwards) would be repeated there:
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following commands as root:
#
# cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
# md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux hormiga.amadeus 2.4.19-686 #1 Mon Nov 18 23:59:03 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=es_AR, LC_CTYPE=es_AR (ignored: LC_ALL set)
Versions of packages xserver-xfree86 depends on:
ii debconf 1.3.20 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii xserver-common 4.2.1-12.1 files and utilities common to all
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-14 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information excluded
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