On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:19:24PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> Package: dictionaries-common
> Severity: important
> Version: 0.24.7
>
> dictionaries-common needs to have an option in the debconf prompting
> such that a user can decline to have dictionaries-common munge their
> precious configuration settings.
>
Rather than a debconf option I would say some way to allow those settings
be preserved, but I agree that something must be done. Having a debconf
query at package install will add an extra question (really two) for a
probably minor audience, but will annoy more people unless we give that
question a low priority.
I am more for allow setting a manual mode from
select-{ispell,wordlist}-default, either with a runtime option or with a
question from the script itself. That will not deal with upgrades from
woody, but will preserve manual mode afterwards if selected.
All this will require changes in a number of places, so will need extensive
testing before upload, and much more testing before I try to put this in
sarge (dictionaries-common is standard because standard wamerican depends on
it, so it is frozen)
> That is, if I've got a dicionary and hash file installed that
> dicionaries-common doesn't know about, I should be able to keep as my
> default if I've set the symlinks myself.
Note that hash format also changes in the woody->sarge transition, old dicts
will not work.
> [This probably is a serious bug, since it doesn't allow administrators
> to preserve their configuration file settings, but I'll leave the RC
> nature of this bug to your discretion.]
>
I will leave it with the current priority. There are more things than
symlinks involved in the setting of default ispell dict, and the better
way to have all this joined together is to locally package such dict the
Debian way. But some people might still prefer to do things manually.
Thanks for pointing out this,
Cheers,
--
Agustin
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