Package: debconf Version: 1.5.27 Severity: critical Usually the severity of a bug like this would be "wishlist" to "minor" (since it isn't really a bug at all) but if a programm leads the user to wrong decissions and other software is affected (important conf-files are overriden = data loss) its critical. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities If you disagree with it (or its only a problem in the german translation), please feel free to change severity.
I usually use Synaptic but I think the problem is related to debconf since the window-title said so. Debconf uses to interact with the user on package upgrade if there are modified configuration-files. In my case I modified /etc/default/grub before and debconf aks if I want to keep my modified conf-file or if I want to install the maintainers version. But the message box really is missunderstandable (at least in german - I don't know how to display or read the message in english): It says: "Konfiguriere grub.pc Wie wollen Sie mit grub verfahren? aktuell installierte Version behalten ... Version des Paket-Betreuers installieren" which means in english (my poor translation): "configuring grub.pc What do you want to to with grub? keep installed Version ... install version of package-maintainer" Of course now I know that debconf means the file /etc/default/grub, but the very first time it happened, I thought that debconf means the _package_ "grub" (since I know the package name - I didn't remember the conffile name)and I choosed "install version of package-maintainer" because I wanted to update to the current version of grub. So its really bad because my modified conf-file is lost (in case of grub it is even worse). Please change the message text to something like "What do you want to happen to the conffile /etc/default/grub" or at least otherwise make clear that debconf means the conffile and not the whole package. Christian Meyer ______________________________________________________ GRATIS für alle WEB.DE-Nutzer: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://movieflat.web.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
