reopen 254998 severity 254998 wishlist thanks > The fact that dpkg does not follow what the policy recommends > is by no means a policy bug. It also is not clear that section 9.4 > applies to dpkg in the first place (dpkg is not an initscript).
I agree that this is not a policy bug; that is why I filed it against dpkg. I don't think that dpkg is violating policy either; if I did, I would have set the severity higher. I think that the dpkg maintainer wrongly reassigned this report to policy. Not wanting to play BTS tennis, I refrained from reassigning it back to dpkg until this report could gather more comments. The motivation for this report is that the user sees sometimes "blah..." and sometimes "blah ..." when installing packages. This looks untidy. If this aesthetic consideration is of no importance at all (not even warranting minor or wishlist severity) then I agree with the closing of the bug. Otherwise the "transition plan" is simple: edit the strings in dpkg with s/ \.\.\./\.\.\./g. I don't see what is so difficult about that, and no one has yet said what obstacles there are to doing it. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]