[Debconf-devel] Bug#922279: debconf: Can't select long choices in dialog (whiptail) multiselect

Kevin Locke kevin at kevinlocke.name
Tue Feb 26 16:43:43 GMT 2019


On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 09:30 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Thanks.  At some point it would be nice to find a way to force the
> choice texts to be unambiguous without overflow, e.g. by prepending or
> appending a number.  But this works as far as it goes and fixes an IMO
> serious bug, so I've just tidied up the indentation in your patch and
> added a changelog entry, and will otherwise push it as is.

Agreed.  My apologies for the inconsistent indentation in the patch.
Thanks for cleaning it up and pushing the fix!

Kevin



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