Re: r45184 - in trunk/packages/localechooser: . debian

2007-02-19 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: So, should a BR be filed against cdebconf for this? Possibly. The debconf spec is vague about this particular case (as it is about many others). That would also mean that we'll have to find a different solution for this in localechooser (should be easy: just store the value

Re: r45184 - in trunk/packages/localechooser: . debian

2007-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 17 February 2007 20:21, Joey Hess wrote: I also see that a question keeps its value even if it is unregistered and re-registered after setting the value. Is that correct? Depends on internal garbage collection implementation probably. Not true of debconf: So, should a BR be

Re: r45184 - in trunk/packages/localechooser: . debian

2007-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Could you take a look at this from a cdebconf perspective? Well, from a debconf perspective at least.. Apparently a db_register does not copy the _value_ of the question for the template the new question is being linked to. This seems sane to me. After all, you are linking

Re: r45184 - in trunk/packages/localechooser: . debian

2007-02-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 16 February 2007 12:21, Frans Pop wrote: Modified: trunk/packages/localechooser/debian/changelog trunk/packages/localechooser/localechooser Log: Fix default for shortlists from locale preseeding by setting the default on the shortlist question itself, rather than on the

Re: r45184 - in trunk/packages/localechooser: . debian

2007-02-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Christian, If that is all correct, then I assume this has never actually been properly tested as that would mean setting the default to the language-specific question can never have worked... Honestly, I absolutely don't remember. From memory I would say that, back in the times I wrote