Description of problem: Of course, different users have different levels of knowledge about package management (and not all the users are native English speakers). Simplified, I guess, the theory sounds like: "rpmsave" files are always the old configuration files and "rpmnew" files are always the new files. But when a beginner user sees a message like "If unsure, keep the current file (remove .rpmsave)" (s)he might think that "the current file" means the existing (old) file - especially since the message suggests to "keep" it. Changing the message to something like "If unsure, use the new file (remove .rpmsave)" should avoid this confusion. Screenshot: https://postimg.cc/HJg0gz0f
Created attachment 13265 [details] drakrpm message about config files
Thank you for the comment. Indeed, I always thought "keep the current file (remove .rpmsave)" *did* mean 'keep what you previously had', despite the contrary implication of the last bit. The screenshot was useful: the whole message is admittedly not very clear. Assigning to the Mageiatools group.
Severity: normal => minorAssignee: bugsquad => mageiatoolsSummary: drakrpm-update: message about configuration files may be confusing => drakrpm-update: message about which post-update configuration file to use is confusing
I have reported this previously as Bug 4671 - Dialog about changed configuration files after updating is unclear - please rephrase
CC: (none) => fri
There is also no explanation of what "do nothing" means. I have always assumed that it changes nothing and keeps the original file. This has always been and still is very confusing even for native English speakers. /OT but related.. The graphical display used to initially show part of each file in view, with the available space split into 3 sections, but more recently it only shows the diff with the others collapsed, as in the screen shot at #1 above. It is not at all obvious now that the other sections can be expanded and viewed especially if you have never seen it the original way.
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Also the diff format is incomprehensible for normal users. There should at least be a link to how to decode that, by normal eyes, mess.
I'm attaching a second screenshot, this one showing the complementary case of the "rpmnew" file. Why am I doing this: in the first screenshot "the current file" refers to the new configuration file. However, in the second screenshot, "the current file" means the old configuration file. I guess we should either have a consistent meaning of the term "current" across cases or (better) get rid of "current" and use "old/new" instead.
Created attachment 13349 [details] message about rpmnew