Your message dated Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:58:31 +0000
with message-id <e1pty2b-00aotl...@fasolo.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#1031172: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #528987,
regarding gconf-editor: I suggest a wording change in the description, please.
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Package: gconf-editor
Version: 2.22.0-1
Severity: minor
>From "aptitude show gconf-editor":
This is not the recommended way of setting desktop
preferences, ...
"That's not very helpful," is the upshot of this report. :-)
... but it might be useful when the proper
configuration utility for some software
provides no way of changing some option.
I think it would be useful to change "This is not" to $BLAH where BLAH ==
"$(whatever_IS_the recommended_way) is". Eg.:
Your preferred Desktop Manager is the recommended way of setting
desktop preferences, but this might be useful when the proper
configuration utility for some software provides no way of
changing some option.
I'm assuming here that that's what you meant?
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Hi. This is a laptop. I've a few others running here, but it's my
primary machine.
I'm one of those so-called corner-cases in that I don't use
Gnome/KDE. I install a minimal base, then augment with fluxbox
and run startx from CLI. Meaning, I don't have what you may
assume to be, "the recommended way of setting desktop preferences,"
installed. So, I go looking in the packaging system for a way to
control Gnome apps, find gconf-editor, and your description tells
me not to use it, and offers no simple alternative. Hence, the above
alternative.
I hate the way modern X stuff (Gnome, KDE, ...) essentially ignore
X resources. However, I'm willing to learn how the new way works
for the few apps of that ilk I use, as long as I don't need to suffer
Gnome/KDE.
Thanks for all your efforts. Have fun. I think Lenny's teriffic! :-)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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Version: 3.0.1-6+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package gconf-editor has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1031172
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
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