Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.20 Severity: wishlist I have an idea.. why not check early if an X server is installed, then in the postinst check again and if there's no X server installed anymore, display an error message about it. It's disconcerting to get this debconf note displayed during normal upgrades where nothing has broken and there's a working X server installed. │ Major possible upgrade issues │ │ │ │ Some users have reported that upon upgrade to the current package set, │ │ their xserver package was no longer installed. Because there is no easy │ │ way around this problem, you should be sure to check that the │ │ xserver-xorg package is installed after upgrade. If it is not installed │ │ and you require it, it is recommended that you install the xorg package │ │ to make sure you have a fully functional X setup. As a bonus, detecting an error and displaying a debconf error template will allow you to actually display a message to the user, which using a debconf note will probably soon not do, since I am already in the process of removing note support from debconf due to the sort of note abuse seen here. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages x11-common depends on: ii cdebconf [debconf-2.0] 0.102 Debian Configuration Management Sy ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.1 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.16.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii lsb-base 3.1-8 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip x11-common recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- see shy jo
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