On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:09:35PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Hmm. I thought I did this.
> >
> > Actually, I do. Except I'm asking at medium, not high. It's a "normal
> > item that has a reasonable default" (see debconf-devel(7)). A correct
> > answer is important for the user to have a good computing experience, so
> > it cannot be low priority ("Very trivial items that have defaults that
> > will work in the vast majority of cases; only control freaks see
> > these.").
> >
> > Perhaps you can help me find the bug in the following:
>
> I'm not going to try to comprehend this code, but I can tell you that I
> reconfigured the package with debconf developer debugging on, and it had
> decided to ask the question at high priority. Medium priority would be
> fine.
I agree, and I have had a fresh look at the code, but I still don't see
how mdetect is working but the question is still being asked at high
priority.
Could you do a fresh install of the package with the following variable
set and exported?
# export DEBUG_XFREE86_DEBCONF=yes
There should be some chatter to stderr about the mouse, among other
things.
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