[Debconf-devel] Processed: reassign 600491 to debconf

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:46:52PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I don't really see a bug in debconf here. Multiselect questions can
> naturally be answered by chosing none of the choices.  That can be done
> using any frontend, and like any other potentially invalid data, it's up
> to the program using debconf to validate it.

> The debconf readline frontend will behave differently depending on the
> backend readline module used. With libterm-readline-gnu-perl it can
> prefill the user's input with the default of the question, and the user
> can erase it all and submit an empty line to indicate NOTA, so the
> explicit "none of the above" choice is not offered there. With the stub
> readline module, an empty line has to mean the default value, so an
> explicit "none of the above" choice is needed, *unless* the default
> value *is* none of the above, then it removes the explicit choice.
> I think this explains the behavior described.

> It might be a nice extension to debconf to have a flag that indicates
> that a multiselect question requires at least one thing be chosen.

I agree on all counts.

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