Debian Bug report logs - #325576
ucf: should use debconf to display the diff results

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

From: Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>

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

Subject: ucf: should use debconf to display the diff results

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:27:07 -0300

Package: ucf
Version: 2.001
Severity: normal

I use the GNOME debconf frontend and found it very weird that it was simply
blocked when I asked to see a 3-way diff of the configuration file it was
handling. Turns out that the diff was being displayed on the terminal window
ucf was running on.

It would be quite more robust to display the results of the diffs as a debconf
note, so it would work good with any frontend.

Thanks,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages ucf depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.58     Debian configuration management sy

Versions of packages ucf recommends:
ii  debconf-utils                 1.4.58     debconf utilities

-- debconf information excluded

Message #16 received at 325576@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Vogt <mvogt@acm.org>

To: 325576@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [PATCH] use debconf to display the diff

Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 21:58:34 +0100

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Hi,

attached is a patch that uses debconf to display the diff. This avoids
that the GUI freeze when using the gnome debconf frontend.

It uses the "escape" capability of debconf, this is why I updated the
debconf version and removed cdebconf (it does not support this feature
currently). 

Feedback is very welcome.

Cheers,
 Michael

P.S. I did the patch against a slightly older version, but it applies
fine to the latest version in unstable.

[ucf_2.0017ubuntu1.debdiff (text/plain, attachment)]

Message #21 received at 325576@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>

To: 325576@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Fix for Bug#325576 commited to version control

Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 11:38:59 -0500

tags 325576 +pending
thanks
Hi,

     The following change has been committed for this bug, and so the
  fix will be in the next upload.
===================================================================
2007-05-05 GMT	Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>	

    Summary:
      Add support for displaying diffs using debconf itself
    Revision:
      ucf--devel--2.0--patch-2

    Users using a Graphical frontend are surprised when the display apparently
    just blocks when they ask to see a diff (or 3-way diff) of the
    configuration file being handled, when actually the diff is  displayed on
    the terminal window ucf was run on. Until the debconf-escape utility and
    the escape CAPB support, db_subst ran into newline and line length
    issues. Patch from Michael Vogt.
    
    Closes: Bug#325576
    
    * ucf (show_diff): Added a function to show the diff using debconf
    
    * ucf (newsum): Use it
    

    modified files:
     ChangeLog ucf

Message #28 received at 325576-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>

To: 325576-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#325576: fixed in ucf 3.001

Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 19:17:03 +0000

Source: ucf
Source-Version: 3.001

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

ucf_3.001.dsc
  to pool/main/u/ucf/ucf_3.001.dsc
ucf_3.001.tar.gz
  to pool/main/u/ucf/ucf_3.001.tar.gz
ucf_3.001_all.deb
  to pool/main/u/ucf/ucf_3.001_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 325576@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> (supplier of updated ucf package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sat,  5 May 2007 11:59:20 -0500
Source: ucf
Binary: ucf
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.001
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Changed-By: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Description: 
 ucf        - Update Configuration File: preserves user changes to config files
Closes: 325576 421141
Changes: 
 ucf (3.001) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Bug fix: "ucf: [INTL:ru] Russian debconf template translation", thanks
     to Yuri Kozlov                                        (Closes: #421141).
   * Bug fix: "ucf: should use debconf to display the diff results", thanks
     to Gustavo Noronha Silva. Users using a Graphical frontend are
     surprised when the display apparently just blocks when they ask to see
     a diff (or 3-way diff) of the configuration file being handled, when
     actually the diff is  displayed on the terminal window ucf was run
     on. Until the debconf-escape utility and the escape CAPB support,
     db_subst ran into newline and line length issues. Patch from Michael
     Vogt.                                                 (Closes: #325576).
   * From Michael Vogt's patch: use a debconf note for the diff. updated
     dependency of debconf to 1.4.72 (this is the version that supports the
     "escape" capability)
   * Left in the debconf-2.0 as is, since I am assuming anything that
     provides debconf-2.0 should be a drop in replacement, or that should
     be considered a bug. This is a change from Michael Vogt's patch.
Files: 
 1da24df27b2aa5843e3336fa2915d1ee 648 utils optional ucf_3.001.dsc
 7f2a4939bdf23dd085fa36518ebd6c5f 77055 utils optional ucf_3.001.tar.gz
 729ac93ddebdcce3f1bd506a855c09fa 57728 utils optional ucf_3.001_all.deb

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