[Debconf-devel] Bug#413509: database communication does not work

[Frank Küster]

Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> wrote:

> Frank Küster wrote:
>> I can check whether your fixes are enough to make my problems
>> disappear.  Is a checkout of
>> svn://svn.debian.org/debconf/trunk/src/debconf the right thing to work
>> with? 
>
> Yes.

Great, it really fixes all issues I could reproduce earlier.  I have
tested "apt-get --reinstall install x11-comon" as well as "dpkg --purge
--force-depends x11-common; apt-get install x11-common".

>> P.S. any idea why this has never caused problems before?  At least the
>> DESTROY message should have been observed by someone?  Or do all
>> technically skilled persons use the readline or dialog frontends?
>
> I suspect that very few people use the KDE frontend.

I found that I prefer the GTK frontend over the dialog frontend, which I
used initially.  And I understood the question of proper debconf wording
better now that I use a graphical frontend.  When I installed etch on
this machine, I decided to give KDE a try, just for playing (but I think
I still like GTK better).

By the way, you wrote earlier that there's a bug in libqt-perl(?) and
your fix is only a workaround - should this be reported separately?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)