Bug#566072: proposed patch

2010-11-30 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:48:30AM -0700, LaMont Jones wrote [edited]: I'll ponder this an get back with you on Monday (US time). and? what about my earlier proposal of using debconf only if it happens to be installed? -S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#566072: proposed patch

2010-11-30 Thread LaMont Jones
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:33:27PM +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:48:30AM -0700, LaMont Jones wrote [edited]: I'll ponder this an get back with you on Monday (US time). and? what about my earlier proposal of using debconf only if it happens to be installed? Well,

Bug#566072: proposed patch

2010-11-30 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
That's fine. I'm glad that my NMU is unnecessary; obviously, feel free to use (parts of) it. It would be good however to finalise the text ASAP so that we advertise it for translations. -S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#566072: proposed patch

2010-11-28 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
tag 566072 patch thanks Dear maintainer, Please consider the attached patch that displays a warning using debconf. Note that I've added the warning in the postinst script (as opposed to preinst, as suggested in msg #54 of this bug report) so that it suffices to Depend on debconf (as opposed to

Bug#566072: proposed patch

2010-11-28 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Here's a slightly revised patch (the one before didn't actually call dh_installdebconf) -S diff -Nurp orig/util-linux-2.17.2//debian/changelog util-linux-2.17.2//debian/changelog --- orig/util-linux-2.17.2//debian/changelog2010-11-28 14:52:49.0 +0100 +++

Bug#566072: proposed patch

2010-11-28 Thread LaMont Jones
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 03:41:37PM +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: Please consider the attached patch that displays a warning using debconf. Note that I've added the warning in the postinst script (as opposed to preinst, as suggested in msg #54 of this bug report) so that it suffices to Depend

Bug#566072: proposed patch

2010-11-28 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:48:30AM -0700, LaMont Jones wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 03:41:37PM +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: Please consider the attached patch that displays a warning using debconf. Note that I've added the warning in the postinst script (as opposed to preinst, as