[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#290679: gpm: please advertise configure-debian, along with dpkg-reconfigure
Janek Kozicki
Janek Kozicki <janek@absurd.kozicki.pl>, 290679@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:50:40 +0100
Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-19
Severity: wishlist
I was really pleased to see a message asking me to use "dpkg-reconfigure
gpm" instead of using gpmconfig. But I have found a much better (and
not-enough advertised tool), called configure-debian.
configure-debian is really under-advertised, since I'm a zealous debian
user for 4 years already (including dualbooting of my machine - 7 years).
And I noticed configure-debian just one month ago :)
Please then modify a message that gpmconfig prints, so that people will
be aware of a really good tool called configure-debian :))
thank you for reading my wishlist bug report ;)
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I suggest a message like this:
WARNING
This program is now deprecated, please use "dpkg-reconfigure gpm"
or "configure-debian" instead. It will be removed in a near future.
If you want to get the old functionality regardless of this note
use "gpmconfig --legacy", but don't rely on it as the main purpose
of this program now is to die.
WARNING
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii ucf 1.13 Update Configuration File: preserv
-- debconf information excluded