[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#268574: gpm: New debconf configuration does not cope with user's errors

[Peter Samuelson]

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[Javier Fern=E1ndez-Sanguino Pe=F1a]
> The old gpmconfig configuration will cope with a common error: it
> will not allow the user to mystype the mouse type since it would
> compare it with the list of available mouse types. The new debconf
> configuration makes no effort to review what the user has introduced
> and, in the event of a typo, the configuration will break (since gpm
> will not be able to start).

Good point, and thanks for the report.

This is really just a starting point for the debconf thing, though.
The plan is to change it to a box where you select the appropriate
line.  We just haven't gotten around to switching it to that yet.

Thanks,
Peter

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