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Bug#507836: marked as done (dpkg: Dpkg -reconfigure xserver -xorg is broken)

Your message dated Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:29:03 +0200
with message-id <20090609162903.GA16024@patate.is-a-geek.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#485615: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't define Monitor values
has caused the Debian Bug report #485615,
regarding dpkg: Dpkg -reconfigure xserver -xorg is broken
to be marked as done.

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485615: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485615
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.14.23
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I'm not sure how to file this other than somebody in Debian made one of 
the most bone-headed decisions ever when producing the dpkg -reconfigure 
xserver -xorg. Has anybody on the debian programming team bothered 
dropping by the forums on forums.debian.net, www.mepislovers.org, or 
even the Ubuntu forums? There are several requests outstanding wanting 
to know why dpkg -reconfigure xserver -xorg is no longer allowing 
selection of the precise video driver desired, and why the precise 
resolution can no longer be selected. As far as I've read on the debian 
mailing lists nobody on the Debian dev teams wants to come forward and 
explain why one of the most powerful and useful tools in the Debian 
Operating System has been changed into something that more resembles a 
Microsoft product tool. The best explination I've seen consists of 
"making Debian easier to configure" ... well. That didn't happen. Debian 
isn't easier to configure. It's bloody impossible for the average user. 

So, we'll put this where it can't be ignored. As a bug report, calling 
out Debian for being dead wrong. Fix the dpkg -reconfigure xserver -xorg 
application. Swallow the pride, admit somebody in Debian blew it, put a 
front page post on Debian.org saying the tool is being restored to it's 
proper state.  

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/stable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-mepis64-smp (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  coreutils                     6.10-6     The GNU core utilities
ii  libc6                         2.7-16     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lzma                          4.43-14    Compression method of 7z format in

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt                           0.7.18     Advanced front-end for dpkg

-- no debconf information

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On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:50:46 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 15:11:48 +0200, Jan Prunk wrote:
> 
> > I was trying to reconfigure xorg on my workstation, which runs lenny.
> > The "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" failed to continue after 5 steps, right after setting the mouse emulation to 3 
> > buttons, I couldn't write the monitor values.
> > 
> It didn't fail to continue, it successfully stopped.  The monitor
> settings should be automatically detected on X server startup in most
> cases, so dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't ask about them anymore.

xserver-xorg is working as expected here, so closing.

Cheers,
Julien

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