Debian bug report logs - #713 mh should pause after printing important message ? Package: mh ; Reported by: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson); 212 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From simons-rock.edu!jimr Mon Sep 25 15:45:58 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sxMHd-0006K4C; Mon, 25 Sep 95 15:45 PDT Received: from plato.simons-rock.edu by pixar.com with SMTP id AA11340 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 25 Sep 1995 15:45:37 -0700 Received: from simons-rock.edu by plato.simons-rock.edu with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sxMG9-0003JZC; Mon, 25 Sep 95 18:44 EDT Message-Id: To: sr1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Sven Rudolph), imurdock@gnu.ai.mit.org Cc: debian-bugs@pixar.com 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" > > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to "James A. Robinson" : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#713 ; Package mh . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de!sr1 Mon Sep 25 15:23:35 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sxLvy-000B0AC; Mon, 25 Sep 95 15:23 PDT Received: from irz101.inf.tu-dresden.de by pixar.com with SMTP id AA10676 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 25 Sep 1995 15:23:10 -0700 Received: by irz101.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) id XAA12054; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 23:22:36 +0100 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 23:22:36 +0100 From: sr1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Sven Rudolph) Message-Id: <199509252222.XAA12054@irz101.inf.tu-dresden.de> To: jimr@simons-rock.edu, debian-bugs@pixar.com X-Debian-Pr: quiet 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/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to sr1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Sven Rudolph) : Extra info received and filed, but not forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From cus.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Sun Apr 2 06:07:40 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0rvPNT-0002TaC; Sun, 2 Apr 95 06:07 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA01750 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Sun, 2 Apr 1995 06:07:35 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #30) id m0rvPKJ-000C05C; Sun, 2 Apr 95 14:04 BST Received: by chiark id m0rvOFN-0000YUZ (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.27); Sun, 2 Apr 95 12:55 BST Message-Id: Date: Sun, 2 Apr 95 12:55 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Debian bugs submission address 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#713 ; Package mh . 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