Bug#337611: xserver-xorg: This may be related to a locally-modified xorg.conf
Huub Reuver <h_reuver@mantell.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> If one can test if the config-file won't be updated should not the message
> be a warning which does not need any interactive response in the first
> place?
That's not the correct fix, I think.
> It is the difference between a interactive and a non-interactive upgrade.
> People who tweak their xorg.conf will be seearching the /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> anyway if the system won't start again.
That's the difference. Non-interactive upgrades shouldn't ask questions
in the first place if no new questions have been added.
Otherwise, the questions should be asked; however, the big difference is
that xserver-xorg should observe dpkg's --force-confdef (as well as
--force-confold and --force-confnew) flags so that the new configuration
file will be written--somewhere--so the user can compare it with the old
one in order to accept the changes or not.
See #374583.
--
Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD
Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E.
If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.
Reply to: