On Mon, 07 Feb 2005, Agustin Martin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:19:24PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Package: dictionaries-common > > Severity: important > > Version: 0.24.7 > > > > dictionaries-common needs to have an option in the debconf prompting > > such that a user can decline to have dictionaries-common munge their > > precious configuration settings. > > > > Rather than a debconf option I would say some way to allow those > settings be preserved, but I agree that something must be done. > Having a debconf query at package install will add an extra question > (really two) for a probably minor audience, but will annoy more > people unless we give that question a low priority.
I was actually thinking of just another option in the default dictionary prompting phase to the effect of "don't change my settings". > All this will require changes in a number of places, so will need > extensive testing before upload, and much more testing before I try > to put this in sarge (dictionaries-common is standard because > standard wamerican depends on it, so it is frozen) Yeah... but assuming the testing gets done, there's no reason not to try for proposed-updates (unless the release team thinks differently) > > That is, if I've got a dicionary and hash file installed that > > dicionaries-common doesn't know about, I should be able to keep as my > > default if I've set the symlinks myself. > > Note that hash format also changes in the woody->sarge transition, > old dicts will not work. Yerp. > Thanks for pointing out this, No problem. [I actually saw it from another bug... wamerican is actually installed but something has caused it to disappear from the list of dictionaries that dictionaries-common knows about... but I haven't tracked that one down enough to know what is going on there.] Don Armstrong -- It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was, of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. -- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p25 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
