Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:32:11PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: >> In other words: everybody who installs the laptop task gets a useless >> and confusing question. In joeys words: >> >> > ... the laptop task is broken, and something has to be done about this. >> >> > It's sort of on the edge between a cosmetic problem and a serious bug, >> > so the best way to make sure it's accepted will be to have a good and >> > clear patch. >> >> The patch below will set a flag on a debconf question to signal we disabled >> the check in d-i and we should not ask the question. In posinst the flag is >> cleared so that in the further life of the package the test will be done. >> [...] > > I confirm that this patch fixes the problem and would be a good addition > to the next point release: I really have seen quite a lot of users being > confused by the warning (thus the recent addition of this issue to the > errata list).
Besides, this is the most simple solution possible since the another one would be to write a conversor for devfs device names in shell and it would be much more error prone. -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house."