[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#289165: gpm: Unnecessary question about X

Helge Kreutzmann Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de>, 289165@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:19:19 +0100


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Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-12.1
Severity: normal

I was updating, and I was asked:
Usually, GPM should be started or restarted when it is installed or
upgraded.  But when X is running and trying to use the same mouse
device, this can sometimes cause a problem with the X mouse cursor.
Switching to the console and then back to X will usually fix it.

Do you want to start or restart GPM while X is running?


But there is *no* X running on this machine currently! (I do not start
X every time, just when I need it). Also I always run apt-get on the
console anyways.

Would this be possible to turn this into a note in NEWS? (i.e., is it
sufficient if restarting while in X fails, that the user jumps to a
terminal and restarts again?).

If the answer is no (which I doubt) then please include some scheme to
detect if X is actually running (not installed, really running) before
asking this question. Preferably, if TERM=3Dxterm or something similar,
so if the user is already on the console, it can be skipped as well.

And in the meantime rephrase the question, like:

Do you want to start or restart GPM now?


The next question is completely unnesessary. Of course remember the setting,
otherwise I can run dpkg-reconfigure on it! Put this into README.Debian or =
NEWS,
but do not prompt again.

(The fact that I do not want to answer all this questions again has been
 already reported, so I do not state it here again; also the question what =
should
 with the "new" gpm.conf should be asked first, because I want to keep my
 working one, then we can skip these earlier questions)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=3Dde_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=3Dde_DE@euro (charmap=3DISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debianutils                 2.8.4        Miscellaneous utilities specif=
ic t
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared librarie=
s an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal =
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