synaptic with dpkg progressbar in hoary

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:00:14AM +0100, Aurélien Naldi wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:50:31 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:38:47PM -0500, JoWilly wrote:
> > 
> > > 1 question: how do you deal with packages where user input is needed
> > > (like the hpoj drivers for HP multifuction devices) ?
> > >
> > > Does it automatically open the terminal view or popup something ?
> > 
> > Packages which do that kind of thing are not compliant with current
> > packaging policies, and should be considered buggy.
> 
> quite a lot of packages are waiting for user input, when the gnome
> frontend to debconf is avaible is seems to use it, that's great...

Yes; the buggy packages are the ones (like hpoj) which do not use debconf,
and interact with the user on the terminal.  This results in synaptic
stalling, unable to give feedback to the user.

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 - mdz