Debian Bug report logs - #174130
debconf: allow empty variable substitutions in Choices field

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Subject: Re: Bug#174130: debconf: allow empty variable substitutions in Choices field
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On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:30:31PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Denis Barbier wrote:
> > consider for instance
> >   Choices: ${foo}, Other, Exit
> > Sometimes ${foo} may be empty, in which case debconf displays an empty
> > line.  A workaround is to replace it by
> >   Choices: ${foo} Other, Exit
> > and to add a comma within foo when needed.
> > This is silly, IMO debconf should not take empty fields into account in
> > Choices fields.
> 
> This is part of the reason I intend to do away with substitution into
> Choices fields and add a new command to the protocol that can be used to
> set choices on the fly instead. You'd then do something like:
> 
> db_getchoices question
> db_setchoices question "$RET, new choice 1, new choice 2"
[...]

Please keep l10n problems in mind when designing this command, I am
afraid that these choices won't be easily translated.

Denis

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