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Bug#229097: marked as done (xserver-xfree86: [debconf] should tell the user the file is not going to be rewritten earlier)

Your message dated Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:34:48 +0100
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and subject line Bug#239271: xserver-xfree86: [debconf] do modified config-file check at beginning of config script
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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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El domingo, 14 de enero de 2007 23:59, Matthias Ferdinand escribió:
> --On Sonntag, Januar 14, 2007 23:22:50 +0100 Brice Goglin
>
> <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> > Hi Matthias,
> >
> > About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding the
> > maintainer scripts not checking whether the config files were modified
> > by the user. Did you reproduce this problem recently? If not, I will
> > close this bug in the next weeks.
>
> Hi,
>
> I just checked on an installation of "testing" (last update around Jan 07),
> with "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" (I am not using xfree86 anymore). The
> program writes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but copies the old config to a
> timestamped file and gives a warning about it.
> Thats probably the best thing it could do :-)
> Very nice, this is obsoletes my wishlist entry.

	Closing bug per submitter's request.

	Thanks for your bug report, Matthias.

	Best regards,


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