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Date:      Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:10:45 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r254961 - head
Message-ID:  <201308271610.r7RGAj4T079199@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: dteske
Date: Tue Aug 27 16:10:44 2013
New Revision: 254961
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/254961

Log:
  Add note/reminder about dialog(1) regression in HEAD/10.0-C so that we don't
  forget about it in the multi-month run of things to fix prior to 10.0-R.

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Tue Aug 27 15:50:26 2013	(r254960)
+++ head/UPDATING	Tue Aug 27 16:10:44 2013	(r254961)
@@ -31,6 +31,19 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 10
 	disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
 	"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20130827:
+        Thomas Dickey (vendor author thereof) reports that dialog(1) since
+        2011/10/18 has a bug in handling --hline. Testers and I noticed the
+        --hline is not ignored but displayed as a NULL string, regardless of
+        value. This will cause confusion in some bsdconfig dialogs where the
+        --hline is used to inform users which keybindings to use. This will
+        likewise affect any other persons relying on --hline. It also looks
+        rather strange seeing "[]" at the bottom of dialog(1) widgets when
+        passing --hline "anything". Thomas said he will have a look in a few
+        weeks. NOTE: The "[]" brackets appear with the left-edge where it
+        would normally appear given the width of text to display, but the
+        displayed text is not there (part of the bug).
+
 20130821:
 	The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices.
 	Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be



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