cc added: Albert Cahalan <acahalan %at% gmail.com>. Albert, welcome to the thread, and thanks for maintaining procps.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Craig Small <csm...@enc.com.au> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 04:09:30AM -0500, Jason A. Spiro wrote: >> >> When? What were the complaints? :) >> > It was quite a few a years ago and it was basically "we want it the > other way" What functionality were you gradually transitioning in? >> But Craig, aren't you the upstream maintainer of procps? >> > No. Albert is. I'm the Debian procps maintainer. I can only generate > Debian-specific diffs, so thats why changing the flags is a bad idea. > I'm also the psmisc (eg killall) maintainer. Ah. Craig, when I saw "You may use the Debian bug tracking system" at http://procps.sourceforge.net/faq.html , and you replied to my issue mail, I thought you were the upstream. :) Is it allowed in the current version of debbugs for you to configure things so debbugs will forward all new procps bugs not just to you, but also to Albert? >> Good idea. I have researched your idea. From the first forty or so >> Google search results for [ "pkill -v" ], it looks like nobody in >> those search results uses "pkill -v some_process_name" except by >> accident. They only use -v purposefully when they use it with -u, as >> in "pkill -v -u root" or "pkill -v -u 0,1" or "pkill -v -u >> root,daemon,nobody,gdm". Maybe if you want to use -v without -u, you >> should need to pass the long option --invert-match instead of the >> short option -v. What do you think? >> > Something like that would be better. Not changing the flag but > disabling it for somewhat obvious errors; and then having another flag, > a long option, that means yes really do it. Albert, I wrote an explanation -- viewable at the top of http://bugs.debian.org/558044 -- on why pkill -v is so dangerous. Given my explanation, what do you think of my idea? Albert, Craig, please make sure to always CC me and the bugtracker when you reply. Kind regards, -Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
