On Friday 07 August 2015 08:27:28 Christian PERRIER wrote:
> It won't make me like debconf notes better (if Joey Hess was still
> around, you might want to ask him about them, he would say that
> inventing debconf nontes wsa the worst idea he probably ever
> had...)but I already had cases in th
Quoting Dmitry Smirnov (only...@debian.org):
> This package can not function properly without upgrade note (which is
> essential). Upgrade note will not be seen if package configured to install
> upgrades automatically. A reasonable precautions to avoid abusing debconf
> were already taken.
W
On Thursday 06 August 2015 06:45:12 Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Any note displayed at high priority is likely to be considered debconf
> abuse. All Debian users with default settings will see it.
>
> So, this is indeed, this one:
>
> db_input high libdvd-pkg/upgrade
>
> It's usually highly recomm
Quoting Dmitry Smirnov (only...@debian.org):
> On Wednesday 29 July 2015 14:53:41 Christian Perrier wrote:
> > This package seems to use a debconf note to notify users without any
> > special action.
>
> If it is about a particular note then which one?
>
> FYI debconf prompt was introduced by req
On Wednesday 29 July 2015 14:53:41 Christian Perrier wrote:
> This package seems to use a debconf note to notify users without any
> special action.
If it is about a particular note then which one?
FYI debconf prompt was introduced by request of Ansgar (on behalf of ftp-
master) as a condition fo
Package: libdvd-pkg
Version: N/A
Severity: normal
This package seems to use a debconf note to notify users without any
special action.
This is usually identified as "debconf abuse". Debconf notes should be
kept for for important notes that the user really should see, since
debconf will go to grea
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