"Cancel" label on "Back" button
Bug #325713 reported by
mlazar
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| debconf (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: debconf
In dialog frontend, the debconf show "Cancel" label on a button with action "Back". The gnome and kde frontend show the same button with label "Back".
Steps to reproduce:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure wvdial
(wvdial is just an example of package using backup capability of debconf, this bug is not wvdial specific)
Used software:
Ubuntu 8.10
debconf 1.5.23ubuntu2
whiptail 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1
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| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
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| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #2 |
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Is this a bug? They have essentially equivalent semantics - the only thing you can do in the debconf protocol in response to GO, other than answering the question, is to return "back up". "Cancel" or "Back" would mean the same thing here, namely cancel the attempt to ask the current question and go back.
While this may sound like an attempt to avoid the problem, note that in many cases in practice, confmodules' support for the backup capability is a bit sketchy, and so the effect of that button can indeed be to cancel the maintainer script; it isn't entirely obvious that either name is better.