Package: debconf Version: 1.4.30.13 Severity: normal Using a template with type "error" usually means that installation will not proceed successfully (otherwise it seems like abuse of the type). In the noninteractive frontend, such messages are not displayed on the terminal. They are sent by mail, but on many systems no mail is configured, or reading mail has to be done on a different system, or similar.
Therefore users who encounter a problem that results in a debconf error and a (config or postinst) script failing are left without information how to fix the problem. As I understood it, telling people how to fix or debug the error is exactly the purpose of the "error" type. Therefore I suggest that debconf should print messages of type "error" to stderr. See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/100647/focus=100652 Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages debconf depends on: ii debconf-i18n 1.4.30.13 full internationalization support ii perl-base 5.8.4-8sarge4 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis -- debconf information: * debconf/priority: medium * debconf/frontend: Kde -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
