Package: debconf Version: 1.5.28 Severity: important dpkg-reconfigure has these problems with ANSI-colorsi, when using dialog-frontend:
1) It can not reliably detect, if current terminal type can support colors. 2) There is no way to force usage of ANSI-colors (just like option -c in mc (Midnight Commander)). I checked both "man dpkg-reconfigure" and "dpkg-reconfigure -h". 3) When it starts without ANSI-colors, it unsuccesfully tries to use color differences in order to show pointer. I am mean chosen entry has red background. I am quite sure that even when ANSI-color support works, some color-blind people may be very upset. Here are screenshots that demonstrate that problem: http://iki.fi/juhtolv/tmp/bugreports/debconf/01/ In that screenshot called dpkg-reconfigure_xterm-256color.png I run dpkg-reconfigure under xterm that uses terminal type called xterm-256color. In that screenshot dpkg-reconfigure_screen-256color-s.png I run dpkg-reconfigure under GNU screen that runs under xterm and terminal type is screen-256color-s . I'd like to use terminal type screen-256color-bce-s , but it is not possible because of bug #491812 . -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debconf depends on: ii debconf-i18n 1.5.28 full internationalization support ii perl-base 5.10.1-7 minimal Perl system Versions of packages debconf recommends: ii apt-utils 0.7.22.2 APT utility programs Versions of packages debconf suggests: ii debconf-doc 1.5.28 debconf documentation ii debconf-utils 1.5.28 debconf utilities ii dialog 1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii gnome-utils 2.26.0-1 GNOME desktop utilities ii libgnome2-perl 1.042-2 Perl interface to the GNOME librar pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> (no description available) ii libterm-readline-gnu-perl 1.19-2 Perl extension for the GNU Readlin ii perl 5.10.1-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii whiptail 0.52.10-4 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe -- debconf information: debconf-apt-progress/title: debconf-apt-progress/info: * debconf/priority: low debconf-apt-progress/preparing: debconf-apt-progress/media-change: * debconf/frontend: Dialog -- Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * http colon slash slash iki dot fi slash juhtolv "Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
