On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 13:32 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:17:54AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Closing the bug report because the emdebian-tools bug script does not > > actually *do* any prompting, it merely calls a reportbug function which > > currently implements the function using a prompt. (Not reassigning > > because prompting in reportbug is clearly not a bug itself.) > > I disagree, there is no value in prompting,
Whether you agree or not, emdebian-tools does not do the prompting so there is no problem with your original objection to prompting (which related to GUI handlers) and I see no other reasoning for any objective problem. You don't like prompting in bug scripts, fine. I like prompting in bug scripts and I think it is useful for me and those who would report bugs against packages that use these scripts. I see no reason to change the current scripts and you have not provided an objective reason so far. > whether you're using a > reportbug function or not. At least, there is absolutely no value in > prompting for checks of sensitive data, the user should either decide > they don't want to transmit possibly sensible at all, or review/edit the > to be transmitted data after getting warned about it. Well, I and the apt maintainers disagree. Is that your only objection? I don't think it counts, sorry. It is far simpler for users to answer 'n' to a prompt than to remove dozens of lines from the content. > Other use-cases for bug script prompting might exist, but (besides > installation-report, which is a special issue) are unknown to me. I provided examples of other packages in my initial reply so those have at least been brought to your attention. I am surprised that the behaviour of apt is unknown to you in this regard. I see no reason to change current behaviour, indeed I think it is a valuable feature that is in line with behaviour of other similar applications. -- Neil Williams ============= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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