Bug#498189: xfonts-scalable: unnecesary use of fmt breaks when not on a tty
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 15:48:33 +0000, Philip Hands wrote:
> I'd suggest that this postinst (and the others that contain all the same
> baggage) need a code review, and that the same result could be better
> achieved by use of a few debconf calls, with the added bonus that the
> warning messages could then be templates and so would get translated.
>
I don't think this would be a good use of debconf. These warnings are
mostly for debugging, there's no reason to require explicit action from
the user to acknowledge them.
Cheers,
Julien
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