Debian Bug report logs - #226963
apt-listchanges: Can't set email-address to empty, it defaults to root

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Crispin Flowerday <debian@flowerday.cx>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: apt-listchanges: Can't set email-address to empty, it defaults to root

Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:03:36 +0000

Package: apt-listchanges
Version: 2.45
Severity: normal

It seems that now (not too sure which version it started at) you can't
specify an empty email address via the dpkg-reconfigure program. If you
clear the text box, it gets reset back to root.

As you can see from the debconf info below, it is set to root, but I
definately cleared the text box.

Cheers

Crispin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux styx 2.6.0 #1 Thu Dec 18 10:09:53 GMT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

Versions of packages apt-listchanges depends on:
ii  apt                           0.5.20     Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  debconf                       1.4.3      Debian configuration management sy
ii  python                        2.3.3-4    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-apt                    0.5.10     Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii  ucf                           0.26       Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
* apt-listchanges/confirm: true
* apt-listchanges/frontend: pager
* apt-listchanges/email-address: root
* apt-listchanges/save-seen: true

Message #10 received at 226963@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>

To: Crispin Flowerday <debian@flowerday.cx>, 226963@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#226963: apt-listchanges: Can't set email-address to empty, it defaults to root

Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:49:12 -0800

reassign 226963 debconf
thanks

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:03:36PM +0000, Crispin Flowerday wrote:

> It seems that now (not too sure which version it started at) you can't
> specify an empty email address via the dpkg-reconfigure program. If you
> clear the text box, it gets reset back to root.
> 
> As you can see from the debconf info below, it is set to root, but I
> definately cleared the text box.

I can reproduce this here, but since the wrong value is ending up in the
debconf database, it seems like a debconf problem.

-- 
 - mdz

Message #17 received at 226963@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

To: Crispin Flowerday <debian@flowerday.cx>

Cc: 226963@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#226963: apt-listchanges: Can't set email-address to empty, it defaults to root

Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:02:29 -0500

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Crispin Flowerday wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 20:32, Joey Hess wrote:
> > It sounds to me as if you are using some other debconf frontend than the
> > default dialog frontend. Which frontend are you using?
> 
> Just the default dialog front-end.
> 
> Interestingly I can't reproduce it on the box I am currently on, but it
> was absolutely definitely happening on my box at work.

Check and see if you have dialog but not whiptail installed on the box
at work.

-- 
see shy jo

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Message #22 received at 226963@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

To: Crispin Flowerday <debian@flowerday.cx>, 226963@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#226963: apt-listchanges: Can't set email-address to empty, it defaults to root

Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:32:04 -0500

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It sounds to me as if you are using some other debconf frontend than the
default dialog frontend. Which frontend are you using?

--
see shy jo

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Message #27 received at 226963@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Crispin Flowerday <debian@flowerday.cx>

To: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

Cc: 226963@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#226963: apt-listchanges: Can't set email-address to empty, it defaults to root

Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:43:44 +0000

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 20:32, Joey Hess wrote:
> It sounds to me as if you are using some other debconf frontend than the
> default dialog frontend. Which frontend are you using?

Just the default dialog front-end.

Interestingly I can't reproduce it on the box I am currently on, but it
was absolutely definitely happening on my box at work.

Crispin

Message #32 received at 226963@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Crispin Flowerday <debian@flowerday.cx>

To: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

Cc: 226963@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#226963: apt-listchanges: Can't set email-address to empty, it defaults to root

Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:25:46 +0000

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 22:02, Joey Hess wrote:
> Crispin Flowerday wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 20:32, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > It sounds to me as if you are using some other debconf frontend than the
> > > default dialog frontend. Which frontend are you using?
> > 
> > Just the default dialog front-end.
> > 
> > Interestingly I can't reproduce it on the box I am currently on, but it
> > was absolutely definitely happening on my box at work.
> 
> Check and see if you have dialog but not whiptail installed on the box
> at work.

I have the following versions of dialog and whiptail installed. Both
packages are installed due to dependancies.

||/ Name               Version            Description
+++-==================-==================-=============================
ii  dialog             0.9b-20031207-1    Displays user-friendly dialog
ii  whiptail           0.51.4-19          Displays user-friendly dialog

Another interesting thing is that if I change the user name for sending
the apt-listchanges output to "crispin", that gets saved fine, but then
if I go through the dpkg-reconfigure dialogs again, and delete "crispin"
from the entry box, it remains. It seems as though something somewhere
is saying "if the value is empty, set it to the current value".

This problem also remains after purging, and re-installing
apt-listchanges.

Crispin

Message #39 received at 226963-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

To: 226963-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#226963: fixed in debconf 1.4.11

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:17:02 -0500

Source: debconf
Source-Version: 1.4.11

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debconf, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

debconf-doc_1.4.11_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/debconf/debconf-doc_1.4.11_all.deb
debconf-english_1.4.11_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/debconf/debconf-english_1.4.11_all.deb
debconf-i18n_1.4.11_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/debconf/debconf-i18n_1.4.11_all.deb
debconf-utils_1.4.11_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/debconf/debconf-utils_1.4.11_all.deb
debconf_1.4.11.dsc
  to pool/main/d/debconf/debconf_1.4.11.dsc
debconf_1.4.11.tar.gz
  to pool/main/d/debconf/debconf_1.4.11.tar.gz
debconf_1.4.11_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/debconf/debconf_1.4.11_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 226963@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
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Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> (supplier of updated debconf package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:35:36 -0500
Source: debconf
Binary: debconf-english debconf-doc debconf-utils debconf-i18n debconf
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.4.11
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Changed-By: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Description: 
 debconf    - Debian configuration management system
 debconf-doc - debconf documentation
 debconf-english - small footprint English-only debconf
 debconf-i18n - full internationalization support for debconf
 debconf-utils - debconf utilities
Closes: 226963 227732 232662 233618
Changes: 
 debconf (1.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Updated Spanish templates translation. Closes: #232662
   * Fix dialog frontend's handling of user entering nothing in an inputbox,
     in this case whiptail's output FD is eof, and care must be taken to not
     return undef. Closes: #233618, #226963, #227732
Files: 
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 fdde9e932a08951ecbf837714427620b 310080 admin optional debconf_1.4.11.tar.gz
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