Package: openoffice.org Version: 1:3.1.1-14 Severity: normal It's really annoying to start an upgrade of 300 packages, then discover that it failed because OpenOffice was one of the 300 and it detected a running session. This results in a dialog box telling me that I need to stop the session and one button, "Ok", which causes the entire install to blow up.
I'm assuming you must have had extremely good reasons for coding up this behavior, so I won't ask you to remove the dialog. However, it would be nice if there was a way to avoid having the install be aborted. For instance, you could give this dialog a "Continue" button and an "Abort" button that do what they say. I would be OK with "continue" looping back if OpenOffice is still running; the main thing is that I want to be able to kill the active session and continue the upgrade afterwards. Even if you keep the current scheme unchanged, it would be really nice if you could at least change the text to "Abort" or "Abort Install" so that it's clear that the install is aborting -- the first few times I hit this message I skimmed the text and didn't realize that it was actually fatal. (I don't know if debconf lets you do that, though) It would also be nice if you could display the "ps" lines for the offending process -- not everyone can remember that the OpenOffice process is actually named "soffice". (oh, and there's one other nasty side-effect of this dialog: if the user has configured debconf to be noninteractive, they get a silent failure with no explanation of what happened. I suggest emitting some sort of error message explaining why the postinst is failing) Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on: ii liblucene2-java 2.9.1+ds1-2 Full-text search engine library fo ii openoffice.org-base 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity ii openoffice.org-calc 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity ii openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity ii openoffice.org-draw 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity ii openoffice.org-filter-mobile 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity ii openoffice.org-impress 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity ii openoffice.org-java-common 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity ii openoffice.org-math 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity ii openoffice.org-officebean 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity ii openoffice.org-report-builde 1:3.1.1-14 OpenOffice.org extension for build ii openoffice.org-writer 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity ii ttf-dejavu 2.30-2 Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu- Versions of packages openoffice.org recommends: ii openoffice.org-filter- 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity ii ttf-liberation 1.05.2.20091019-4 Fonts with the same metrics as Tim ii ttf-mscorefonts-instal 3.0 Installer for Microsoft TrueType c Versions of packages openoffice.org suggests: ii cups-bsd 1.4.2-6 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 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runtime li ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.25-7 GStreamer libraries from the "base ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.25-4+b1 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.6-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.8-5 spell checker and morphological an ii libhyphen0 2.4-6 ALTLinux hyphenation library - sha ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libicu42 4.2.1-3 International Components for Unico ii libjpeg62 6b-15 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.17-2.1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libneon27-gnutls 0.29.0-1 An HTTP and WebDAV client library ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.2-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-1d 3.12.5-1 Network Security Service libraries ii librdf0 1.0.10-1 Redland Resource Description Frame ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-1 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxext6 2:1.1.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxinerama1 2:1.1-2 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.7.6.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-2 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.5-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-1 XSLT processing library - 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