[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