Debian bug report logs - #713, boring messages

Subject: Bug#713: mh should pause after printing important message ?
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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Package: mh
Version: 6.8.3-2

mh produces a message at installation time:
 Setting up mh ...

 Be sure to add /usr/bin/mh to your path!

However, it doesn't wait for the user to acknowledge it, so the user
could easily miss it.

This should either be documented somewhere else where the person will
look when they try to use mh and fail (this sounds tricky), or it
should get the user to press `enter' to acknowledge the message.

It might also be a good idea to mention to the sysadmin that they
should not edit the standard system path to contain /usr/bin/mh - only
those users who actually want to use mh should have it in their path.

Ian.

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
Subject: Bug#713: Acknowledgement (was: mh should pause after printing important message ?)
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Subject: Bug#713: mh should pause after printing important message ?
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 18:44:25 -0400
From: "James A. Robinson" <jimr@simons-rock.edu>


> > mh produces a message at installation time:
> > Setting up mh ...
> >
> > Be sure to add /usr/bin/mh to your path!
> >
> > However, it doesn't wait for the user to acknowledge it, so the user
> > could easily miss it.
>
> Please remember to handle this bug report.

Sorry, I would have handled this a long time ago except for one small
problem -- I can no longer compile MH.  Our libraries/linker/compilers
have moved up beyond the point where the old Linux MH patchs will
work.  So until we move to Elf, I am stuck.

Ian M., this is such a minor thing that I think I should wait until we
do Elf, but if you disagree, what I can do is upload a "new" binary
that has a fix in it, but with no accompanying "fixed" source -- since
it won't compile anyway.


Jim

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: "James A. Robinson" <jimr@simons-rock.edu>
Subject: Bug#713: Info received (was Bug#713: mh should pause after printing important message ?)
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