[Popcon-developers] Bug#229111: popularity-contest: an unnecessary debconf question

Adam Borowski Adam Borowski <kilobyte@mimuw.edu.pl>, 229111@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 23 Jan 2004 03:50:00 +0100


Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.8
Severity: minor

The following question has a priority of high:
,--------
| The mail address used to submit popularity-contenst entries is obsolete.
|
| Update mailto address to the current one?
`----

IMHO this question should not only have it priority downgraded, but I
also believe it makes no sense at all -- I quite fail to see why would
I want to have my data sent to the old address.
Sure, it does make sense to use some _other_ mailto (like, if you want
to check what's being used at your local organization, for example),
however this is not the case for the old one.

Thus, I would regard this thing as a debconf abuse.
(And yeah, you got a typo in the message, hah! :p )

Regards,
 Adam

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux kilobyte 2.6.0 #1 Wed Jan 14 01:03:19 CET 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.4.7      Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.10.18    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  exim4                         4.30-5     An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.30-5     Lightweight version of the Exim (v
ii  perl                          5.8.2-2    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
* popularity-contest/intro: 
* popularity-contest/update-mailto: true