Debian Bug report logs - #229097
xserver-xfree86: [debconf] should tell the user the file is not going to be rewritten earlier

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

From: Margarita Manterola <debian@marga.com.ar>

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

Subject: debconf: should tell the user the file is not going to be rewritten earlier

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:42:15 -0300

Package: xserver-xfree86
Version: 4.2.1-12.1
Severity: minor

When doing a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, I went
through the LONG set of answers and then after the last one, I was told:
"XF86Config-4 was modified not writting it".

This is awful.  I think this message should be at the beginning, not at
the end, after I had spent about 5 minutes selecting the options.

Also, it would be nice if the message that's in the file (I found it
afterwards) would be repeated there:

# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following commands as root:
#
#   cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
#   md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum
#   dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux hormiga.amadeus 2.4.19-686 #1 Mon Nov 18 23:59:03 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=es_AR, LC_CTYPE=es_AR (ignored: LC_ALL set)

Versions of packages xserver-xfree86 depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.3.20       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  xserver-common              4.2.1-12.1   files and utilities common to all 
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.1.4-14   compression library - runtime

-- debconf information excluded

Message #8 received at 229097-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>

To: 229097-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#229097: debconf: should tell the user the file is not going to be rewritten earlier

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:02:55 -0500

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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:42:15PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> Package: xserver-xfree86
> Version: 4.2.1-12.1
> Severity: minor
> 
> When doing a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, I went
> through the LONG set of answers and then after the last one, I was told:
> "XF86Config-4 was modified not writting it".
> 
> This is awful.  I think this message should be at the beginning, not at
> the end, after I had spent about 5 minutes selecting the options.
> 
> Also, it would be nice if the message that's in the file (I found it
> afterwards) would be repeated there:
> 
> # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
> # again, run the following commands as root:
> #
> #   cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
> #   md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum
> #   dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

If it's any consolation, your answers were not thrown away.  They're in
the debconf database.

To write your XF86Config-4 using them, do this:

# cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
# dexconf

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Message #13 received at 229097-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Margarita Manterola <marga@marga.com.ar>

To: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>, 229097-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#229097: debconf: should tell the user the file is not going to be rewritten earlier

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:06:10 -0300

Hola Branden Robinson!

> If it's any consolation, your answers were not thrown away.  They're in
> the debconf database.
> 
> To write your XF86Config-4 using them, do this:
> 
> # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
> # dexconf

Ok! Thanks!

BTW, I read debian-devel daily and I'm an admirer of yours 8)

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