Log of /debconf-trunk/debian/templates.gl

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Modified Thu Sep 6 04:41:25 2001 UTC (11 years, 8 months ago) by joey
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not released

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Modified Tue Aug 28 23:03:09 2001 UTC (11 years, 8 months ago) by joey
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   * Let's call it 1.0, folks!
   * This leaves the following big things for later:
     - a better confmodule interface that doesn't eat stdin/out
     - container template types
     - select list with explainations
     - a textual replacement for the dialog frontend that is just as
       easy to use, and sucks less
     - better developer's documentation
     - regression tests
     - everything else in the TODO file
   * I mention a dialog frontend replacement that does not suck. The slang
     frontend was intended to be just that, but it is a failure, with big
     problems like unscrollable extended descriptions, UI clunkiness, etc.
     Nobody wants to fix these issues, and so the best thing to do is remove
     it, before a lot of people begin to use it.
     Closes: #66170, #81344, #96302, #74722, #77085, #101643
   * Removing the slang frontend also involved:
     - getting rid of debconf/helpvisible, which was only used by it
     - modifiying the debconf/frontend's template description, thus making
       all the translatione be out of date again, right as I release 1.0.
       Bleh. I was able to clean up the french template, but all the other
       translations of that template were too out of date to live, so I
       removed it from them. I am accepting updated translations, and I would
       love to get a 1.1 release out with fully up-to-date translations of
       everything.
     - doc updates
     - libterm-stool-perl will be removed, so removed relations to it
     - ensuring an upgrade path, if not a very clean one, for people who had
       it set to use the slang frontend. You'll get dialog now, and just
       ignore that nasty set of perl errors you get while upgrading to this
       version, I can't do anything about it w/o some nasty hacking.

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Modified Sat Jul 7 18:53:17 2001 UTC (11 years, 10 months ago) by joey
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   * Put back debconf/helpvisible question, and made the slang frontend
     toggle it again. This makes changes to the slang frontend help visiable
     status made by hitting the button persistant again.
   * In terse mode, default help to not visible no matter what the
     helpvisible setting.
   * Closes: #103621

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Modified Tue Jul 3 06:22:33 2001 UTC (11 years, 10 months ago) by joey
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   * Introducing terse mode. You know what you're doing, and so you're using
     the text frontend (of course!) as you do a remote upgrade from rexx over
     a 30 hop, 95% packet loss link to another continent. Every byte hurts.
     You don't need all those touchy-feely verbose help screens. Terse mode is
     for you. (Well, for me anyway. Damn this wireless link.)
        # dpkg-reconfigure debconf --terse
        What interface should be used for configuring packages? Text
        Ignore questions with a priority less than.. low
        Show all old questions again and again? no
   * Added DEBCONF_TERSE variable.
   * Added terse support to text frontend.
   * Renamed debconf/helpvisible to debconf/terse.
   * Terse can be configured in debconfrc and with --terse too.
   * Finally tracked down the mysterious text frontend title printing bug --
     it happened if nothing was displayed, but a note was mailed.
   * Updated korean translation from Eungkyu Song <eungkyu@sparcs.org>
     Closes: #103260
   * Added brazillian portuguese po file from Gustavo Noronha Silva
     <kov@debian.org>, Closes: #103253

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Modified Mon Jun 25 21:02:46 2001 UTC (11 years, 10 months ago) by joey
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   * Added debconf-show, which displays all questinos belonging to a
     package, their values, and indicates if they have been seen or not, all
     in a compact format handy for bug reports. Now why didn't I think of
     this before?
   * To keep the bit scales balanced, removed an unused template.

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Added Sun Mar 25 22:51:43 2001 UTC (12 years, 1 month ago) by joey
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   * Jacobo Tarrio <jtarrio@iname.com> contributed a Galician translation,
     bringing the number of languages supported up to 15.