Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:24:15PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Bastian Venthur wrote: > > is anyone using interactive bugscripts? I mean scripts in > > /usr/share/bug/ which interactively demand answers from the user. > > The installation-reports script is quite interactive. Maybe that is a special

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Josselin Mouette schrieb: > Le lundi 08 juin 2009 à 14:31 +0200, Bastian Venthur a écrit : >> My medium term solution is to make rng depend on xterm and use that >> instead of x-terminal-emulator. "xterm -e cmd" seems to return only if >> the cmd returned. > > Why not use vte (or whatever is the Q

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 08 juin 2009 à 14:31 +0200, Bastian Venthur a écrit : > My medium term solution is to make rng depend on xterm and use that > instead of x-terminal-emulator. "xterm -e cmd" seems to return only if > the cmd returned. Why not use vte (or whatever is the Qt equivalent) instead? -- .''`.

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Josselin Mouette schrieb: > Le lundi 08 juin 2009 à 14:06 +0200, Bastian Venthur a écrit : >>> The installation-reports script is quite interactive. >> Ok. > >> If no packages (or only a handfull) used this feature than asking to >> depreciate this feature would have been an option, but in this ca

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Josselin Mouette schrieb: > From now on, I’d say we can either: > * force such scripts to use an abstraction layer to prompt the > user; Wouldn't it be possible to use debconf for that? It already has interfaces for different user interfaces (TTBOMK including KDE, GNOME, Dialog

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 08 juin 2009 à 14:06 +0200, Bastian Venthur a écrit : > > The installation-reports script is quite interactive. > > Ok. > If no packages (or only a handfull) used this feature than asking to > depreciate this feature would have been an option, but in this case I > have to see how I can h

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Frans Pop schrieb: > Bastian Venthur wrote: >> is anyone using interactive bugscripts? I mean scripts in >> /usr/share/bug/ which interactively demand answers from the user. > > The installation-reports script is quite interactive. Ok. > > Why do you continue to want to cripple bug reporting be

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Bastian Venthur wrote: is anyone using interactive bugscripts? I mean scripts in /usr/share/bug/ which interactively demand answers from the user. I made a quick search on my system and I only found the texlive packages using "getkey" to force a user to read a text before the script is executed.

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

2009-06-08 Thread Frans Pop
Bastian Venthur wrote: > is anyone using interactive bugscripts? I mean scripts in > /usr/share/bug/ which interactively demand answers from the user. The installation-reports script is quite interactive. Why do you continue to want to cripple bug reporting because of reportbug-ng? I appreciate