Hi Christian On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 02:31:44PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Ola, > > I followed the story of this bug because Thomas reflects in his bug > report an opinion that is shared among many people, including, as far > as I know, Joey Hess when he wrote the debconf protocol and the > debconf package (which is why I CC Joey to this mail).
Thanks for your opinions. > When it comes at notes like the one you're using in harden, I can cite > the debconf-devel(7) man page: > > note Rather than being a question per se, this datatype > indicates a note that can be displayed to the user. It > should be used only for important notes that the user > really should see, since debconf will go to great pains > to make sure the user sees it; halting the install for > them to press a key, and even mailing the note to them in > some cases. It???s best to use these only for warning > about very serious problems. > > > As you see, depending on the way one sees things, one can't probably > tell that this really fits the note used in harden. I know. I have read through that before, and know that I in some way am abusive. > On the other hand, I must admit that, as you use a low priority to > display the note, it is not *that* annoying and that calling it an > "abuse" may be a little strong...:-) Exactly my point. > I think that the main intent hidden behind us (mostly > translators....because we are the people who usually read all the > debconf notes, as we have to translate them) chasing these "abuses" is > to discourage too much people/maintainers to use them. > > This is a kind of chicken and egg problem: if notes are really used > only for very serious warnings, then a little number of people will be > tempted to use them. > > If they are used all the time, to warn admins about this and that or > to display stuff that really pertains to README.Debian or NEWS.Debian, > this is kind of an incitation to use them everywhere. > > We won't probably insist much more about this topic as the point is > certainly not having you do changes to your package without being > convinced they are worth it. The main point is probably bringing > another point of view on that topic....and, anyway, this is probably > not the most important topic to deal with in Debian...:-) :) > The initial bug report may have sounded a bit "aggressive" to your > eyes....which is not really surprising. Thomas, or myself (or some > other people from time to time), send a lot of such bug reports and > often lack time to adapt the bug report text to each and every case. I fully understand that. I have filed such general bugs myself from time to time. > Hope this will help you getting the whole picture and, anyway, thanks > in the name of all of us for the work you're doing to maintain your > package(s). Thanks // Ola > > -- > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
