Bug#574146: confusing use of debconf for license agreement

Torsten Werner twerner at debian.org
Wed Jul 28 15:28:00 UTC 2010


Hi,

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> wrote:
> 1. Follow the example in debconf-devel(5) and if the user chooses
>   to back up from the first question asked, do not redisplay it, but
>   exit 10.

That sounds reasonable. I will try to implement that.

> 2. Combine license display and prompt into a single boolean question.

That looks strange in the gnome frontend because the user must press
the help button to see the license. The current implementation looks
better in the gnome frontend. Please let me know if I am wrong.

Cheers,
Torsten





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