[Bug 1722564] Re: apport question will not accept multi-character responses

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 03:35:57PM -0000, Chad Smith wrote:
> Ahh brian, sorry for this delay here, I forgot to subscribe to the bug.
> So those variable changes where actually because I had update apport on
> a zesty machine but accidentally diffed against xenial  source. I'll put
> up an official upstream apport merge proposal and link it here so we can
> proceed with a discussion.

I hope to get back to this soon, but the SRU team rejected the change
because sometimes you'd have to enter just one character and sometimes
you'd have to enter a character and a space e.g. '3 ' if there were more
than 9 choices.

I've still no idea why the initial decision was made to accept only one
character.

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Brian Murray

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Title:
  apport question will not accept multi-character responses

Status in Apport:
  Confirmed
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in apport source package in Artful:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  the newly added cloud-init apport support shows a list of cloud
  providers and asks the user to select one.  There are currently 18
  options.  For any option > 10, apport will just take the '1' that is
  typed as the answer.

  It should obviously wait for more than one character or a carriage
  return.

  
  *** Please select the cloud vendor or environment in which this instance is running

  
  Choices:
    1: Amazon - Ec2
    2: AliYun
    3: AltCloud
    4: Azure
    5: Bigstep
    6: CloudSigma
    7: CloudStack
    8: DigitalOcean
    9: GCE - Google Compute Engine
    10: MAAS
    11: NoCloud
    12: OpenNebula
    13: OpenStack
    14: OVF
    15: Scaleway
    16: SmartOS
    17: VMware
    18: Other
    C: Cancel
  Please choose (1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/C): 1

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: apport 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Oct 10 15:21:48 2017
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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