Activity log for bug #277722

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2008-10-03 18:13:24 Scott Kitterman bug added bug
2008-10-13 02:38:24 Jonathan Thomas adept: status New Confirmed
2008-10-13 02:38:24 Jonathan Thomas adept: importance Undecided Medium
2008-10-13 02:38:24 Jonathan Thomas adept: statusexplanation Adept isn't using a terminal kpart to present debconf questions, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't ask the questions at all. ;-) Adept 3 seems to display the message on directly the application background, with pushbuttons, etc to get feedback from the user. An example of this is installing java, which uses debconf to present the user with a license agreement. Adept 3 does, however, fail to present debconf questions concerning configuration files that new packages bring. (Replace or keep old one) Currently Adept just takes the default route and keeps the old one. I don't know the seriousness of the implications of this behavior however. I think we discussed this on IRC and you said it was quite serious... Anyway, at the least we should ask upstream to implement a way to answer prompts for config file changes, or implement them ourselves for upstream. We should also probably consider other debconf questions and see how Adept3 handles them.
2008-10-13 02:38:39 Jonathan Thomas bug assigned to adeptmgr
2008-10-16 14:30:28 Jonathan Thomas adeptmgr: status New Unknown
2008-10-16 14:30:28 Jonathan Thomas adeptmgr: importance Undecided Unknown
2008-10-16 14:30:28 Jonathan Thomas adeptmgr: statusexplanation
2008-10-16 14:30:48 Jonathan Thomas adept: status Confirmed Triaged
2008-10-16 14:30:48 Jonathan Thomas adept: importance Medium High
2008-10-16 14:30:48 Jonathan Thomas adept: statusexplanation Adept isn't using a terminal kpart to present debconf questions, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't ask the questions at all. ;-) Adept 3 seems to display the message on directly the application background, with pushbuttons, etc to get feedback from the user. An example of this is installing java, which uses debconf to present the user with a license agreement. Adept 3 does, however, fail to present debconf questions concerning configuration files that new packages bring. (Replace or keep old one) Currently Adept just takes the default route and keeps the old one. I don't know the seriousness of the implications of this behavior however. I think we discussed this on IRC and you said it was quite serious... Anyway, at the least we should ask upstream to implement a way to answer prompts for config file changes, or implement them ourselves for upstream. We should also probably consider other debconf questions and see how Adept3 handles them.
2008-10-16 14:33:20 Jonathan Thomas title Adept 3 missing details option in updater Adept 3 doesn't present conffile replacement debconf questions
2008-10-16 15:27:50 Jonathan Thomas adept: importance High Wishlist
2008-10-16 15:27:50 Jonathan Thomas adept: statusexplanation Works now, but "Show details" is a reasonable feature to want.
2008-10-16 15:28:29 Jonathan Thomas title Adept 3 doesn't present conffile replacement debconf questions Adept 3 missing details option in updater
2008-10-16 16:51:17 Bug Watch Updater adeptmgr: status Unknown Invalid
2011-02-27 07:47:15 Bug Watch Updater adeptmgr: importance Unknown Wishlist
2012-09-03 14:45:03 Jonathan Thomas adept (Ubuntu): status Triaged Won't Fix