Debian bug report logs - #713
mh should pause after printing important message ?

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Subject: Re: Bug#713: mh should pause after printing important message ? 
In-Reply-To: Message from sr1@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de (Sven Rudolph) 
   of "Mon, 25 Sep 1995 23:22:36 BST." <199509252222.XAA12054@irz101.inf.tu-dresden.de> 
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

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Subject: Re: Bug#713: mh should pause after printing important message ?

iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) wrote:
> 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.

Please remember to handle this bug report.

(Personal opinion: I think that you may delete the postinst message
and that's enough. The man page mentions that the user should add
/usr/bin/mh to the PATH, and I don't believe that someone who never
used mh would start using it without reading the manpage.)

If you aren't shure how to handle this problem please ask the
originator of the bug report (or debian-devel) about it.

	Sven
-- 
Sven Rudolph (sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de); WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/

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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Subject: mh should pause after printing important message ?

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.