Package: parallel
Followup-For: Bug #905674
Dear Maintainer,
In fixing #905674 you've completely removed the 'parallel --citation'
option from the package, which seems like overreach.
Yes the default notification is spammy and I think Debian should
remove it, it's not scalable that every program in Debian have some
click-through like this, but completely removing the "how do I cite
this program?" functionality the author wants in there seems like
overreach.
I'd like to suggest an alternate approach. Drop the
remove-overreaching-citation-request.patch patch and just ship this
config as part of the package:
$ cat /etc/parallel/config
# Quiet the citation message
--will-cite
This is what I do in my own in-house build of parallel (for RHEL).
You may still (reading the previous discussion) want to carry some
patch to remove the "If you pay 10000 EUR you should feel free to use
GNU Parallel without citing" part of the message.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (1000, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (400, 'stable'),
(100, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages parallel depends on:
ii perl 5.28.1-3
ii procps 2:3.3.15-2
ii sysstat 12.0.1-1+b1
parallel recommends no packages.
parallel suggests no packages.
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