[Debconf-devel] Bug#679327: Bug#679327: debian-installer: misleading man-db title for grub prompts
Joey Hess
joeyh at debian.org
Sat Dec 22 20:49:20 UTC 2012
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> So, finally tracked it down, confirming my initial suspicion: the
> triggers are doing that.
>
> Basically, we have debconf in target setting titles through the
> frontend script, even when maintainer scripts are called with the
> “triggered” action.
>
> I'm suggesting the attached patch, avoiding setting the title in that
> specific case. That doesn't affect debconf-apt-progress feedback: one
> still sees triggers being processed (and that's good since they can
> take a while).
>
>
> Confirmed by partial-cloning an archive, hacking hashsums and keyrings
> in place, and installing with that… [*crazy evening*]
>
> Does that look fine enough? If so, a quick upload to get that fixed in
> testing before publishing d-i wheezy rc1 would be nice. (I'll be
> replying to the debconf 1.5.48 unblock request in the meanwhile.)
This seems acceptable for now.
If a package used debconf for interaction in a trigger, it would then
have the wrong title .. but until someone finds a reason for a package
to need to do that, we can live with this patch.
--
see shy jo
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