From: aba <aba@313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:56:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: debconf error supported; 427832
X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=developers-reference.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=6f3c73edc59b7686a907eb254d85d427abd30ad5

debconf error supported; 427832


git-svn-id: svn://anonscm.debian.org/ddp/manuals/trunk/developers-reference@4648 313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b59fb2a..58ee557 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ developers-reference (3.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
     - move debhelper to Build-Depends.
     - add pdf for French version.
   * Document changes to stable release management. Closes: #414291
+  * Debconf error templates no longer discouraged. Thanks,
+    Christian Perrier. Closes: #427832
 
  -- Andreas Barth <aba@gluck.debian.org>  Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:41:41 -0600
 
diff --git a/developers-reference.sgml b/developers-reference.sgml
index 903282b..9c8d5d6 100644
--- a/developers-reference.sgml
+++ b/developers-reference.sgml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <!ENTITY % dynamicdata  SYSTEM "dynamic.ent" > %dynamicdata;
 
   <!-- CVS revision of this document -->
-  <!ENTITY cvs-rev "$Revision: 1.316 $">
+  <!ENTITY cvs-rev "$Revision: 1.317 $">
 
   <!-- if you are translating this document, please notate the CVS
        revision of the original developer's reference in cvs-en-rev -->
@@ -4385,17 +4385,13 @@ This type is now considered obsolete: don't use it.
 
 	<sect3>error:
 	<p>
-<strong>THIS TEMPLATE TYPE IS NOT HANDLED BY DEBCONF YET.</strong>
-	<p>
-It has been added to cdebconf, the C version of debconf, first used in
-the Debian Installer.
-	<p>
-Please do not use it unless debconf supports it.
-	<p>
-This type is designed to handle error message. It is mostly similar to
+This type is designed to handle error messages. It is mostly similar to
 the "note" type. Frontends may present it differently (for instance,
 the dialog frontend of cdebconf draws a red screen instead of the
 usual blue one).
+	<p>
+It is recommended to use this type for any message that needs user
+attention for a correction of any kind.
 
 
 	<sect2>Description: short and extended description