[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#289165: Second question may actually be required

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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Hi,

I noticed the removal of "remember the restart setting?" in changelog
entry of 1.19.6-20, and it sounds similar to my recently adding a silly
question to ipopd and uw-imapd: debconf is *not* a registry (as it
states itself in its documentation) so be careful to respect actual
configuration files over debconf answers.

What I mean is, if the answer to your seemingly silly question relates
to setup of configuration files that the local admin can later have
edited manually, those changes must be respected instead of the debconf
answers.

If the related configuration files are reachable for parsing (which was
not the case for me) then off course you can check if it is sane to do
what you want or not. Just remember to do that additional parsing if need=
ed.


I must admit that I haven't looked closely at gpm, so please excuse me
if I am all wrong here. If you do not understand what I am talking
about, then instead ask me to clarify - it is a tricky cornercase that I
myself didn't realize until someone brought up a concrete (annoying, and
in itself complex, and revealing other bugs in my packaging code) case
that it could happen.


Regards,

 - Jonas

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