[Popcon-developers] Bug#229288: uses high priority debconf question for trivial matter

[Joe Drew]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.9
Severity: important

>From popularity-contest.config:
# Ask if the old addresses should be changed to the new address.
if [ "$MAILTO" = "erich-survey@debian.org" -o \
     "$MAILTO" = "apenwarr-survey@debian.org" ]; then
    db_input high popularity-contest/update-mailto || [ $? -eq 30 ]
    db_go || true
fi

This absolutely should not be a high priority question. In my opinion, it
should not be a question at all; the postinst should have automatically
changed the mailto reference, and only prompted if something went wrong.

>From debconf(7):
    low    Very trivial questions that have defaults that will work in 
           the vast majority of cases.
    medium Normal questions that have reasonable defaults.
    high   Questions that don't have a reasonable default.
    critical
           Questions that you really, really need to see (or else).

In my opinion, this fits into 'low' if at all (who cares, anyways, and what
are the ramifications if it's not done?); high is most certainly priority
inflation.

My suggestion: remove the prompt.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux pisces 2.4.22 #4 Fri Sep 5 21:44:11 EDT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.4.7      Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.10.18    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  perl                          5.8.2-2    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.0.18-1   A high-performance mail transport 

-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
* popularity-contest/intro: 
* popularity-contest/update-mailto: true