Debian Bug report logs - #501767
[patch] hide cancel and close in the gnome frontend

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

From: Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [patch] hide cancel and close in the gnome frontend

Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:57:38 +0200

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Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.23


Hi,

I would like to hide the cacncel button and the close button in the
gnome frontend by default. The rational is that users often click it
when they don't have a clue what to answer. 

But because "cancel" is mapped to "exit 1" this makes the maintainer
script that calls debconf fail. This is especially a problem during
dist-upgrades where failures in maintainer scripts are bad.

Cheers,
 Michael

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Message #10 received at 501767@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

To: Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com>, 501767@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Debconf-devel] Bug#501767: [patch] hide cancel and close in the gnome frontend

Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:44:57 -0400

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Michael Vogt wrote:
> I would like to hide the cacncel button and the close button in the
> gnome frontend by default. The rational is that users often click it
> when they don't have a clue what to answer. 
> 
> But because "cancel" is mapped to "exit 1" this makes the maintainer
> script that calls debconf fail. This is especially a problem during
> dist-upgrades where failures in maintainer scripts are bad.

I think the button should optimally prompt to make sure the user wants
to abort.

The dialog frontend lacks a way to cancel, and I typically find that
annoying, since sometimes you really do want to effectively ctrl-c the
whole upgrade.

-- 
see shy jo

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Message #15 received at 501767-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: 501767-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#501767: fixed in debconf 1.5.63

Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 01:48:48 +0000

Source: debconf
Source-Version: 1.5.63

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.

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 501767@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated debconf package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 02:23:47 +0100
Source: debconf
Binary: debconf debconf-i18n debconf-doc debconf-utils
Architecture: source
Version: 1.5.63
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debconf Developers <debconf-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Description:
 debconf    - Debian configuration management system
 debconf-doc - debconf documentation
 debconf-i18n - full internationalization support for debconf
 debconf-utils - debconf utilities
Closes: 501767 608648
Changes:
 debconf (1.5.63) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * "Change directory to / before executing maintainer scripts" from 1.5.62
     was too intrusive due to changing Debconf::ConfModule, and broke some
     existing maintainer scripts that e.g. ran ucf with relative paths.
     Instead, just chdir to / before running maintainer scripts in
     dpkg-reconfigure and chdir back afterwards (closes: #608648).
   * In the Gnome frontend, hide the cancel button, and prompt for
     confirmation when the close button is pressed (closes: #501767).
     Original idea by Michael Vogt with an amendment by Joey Hess; some code
     by Martin Pitt.
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