Bug#727680: “Yes, do as I say!“ sounds odd

2013-10-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
[reordered to have the most-important response-part first] On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Fabien Givors (Debian) f+deb...@chezlefab.net wrote: On 27/10/2013 18:54, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Fabien Givors (Debian) f+deb...@chezlefab.net wrote: I'm sure you

Bug#727680: “Yes, do as I say!“ sounds odd

2013-10-28 Thread Fabien Givors (Debian)
I'm sure you have, as an apt dev, a better understanding than me of these problems so, now that I've reported my thoughts, I'll stop arguing and trust your decision :) No no no no no. Put that idea back into the trash bin there it belongs. Use a baseball bat if you have to, to keep it from

Bug#727680: “Yes, do as I say!“ sounds odd

2013-10-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:53 AM, David Prévot taf...@debian.org wrote: Le 26/10/2013 03:45, Christian PERRIER a écrit : Quoting David Prévot (taf...@debian.org): P.-S. : trying hard not to go the nitpicking way of challenging « je vous dis » for a typing interface ;-). Oh, yes! Please

Bug#727680: “Yes, do as I say!“ sounds odd

2013-10-27 Thread Fabien Givors (Debian)
David Kalnischkies wrote: Stepping back for a second and freeing myself from the consequences: How about dropping this question altogether? We have a flag which is (supposed to be) able to skip this question: --force-yes which is described as being potentially harmful in the manpage.

Bug#727680: “Yes, do as I say!“ sounds odd

2013-10-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting David Kalnischkies (kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com): Rational: Users who run into this question by 'accident' aren't saying yes to it; Users who know they will because they are changing e.g. the init system Don't

Bug#727680: “Yes, do as I say!“ sounds odd

2013-10-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Fabien Givors (Debian) f+deb...@chezlefab.net wrote: David Kalnischkies wrote: Stepping back for a second and freeing myself from the consequences: How about dropping this question altogether? We have a flag which is (supposed to be) able to skip this

Bug#727680: “Yes, do as I say!“ sounds odd

2013-10-27 Thread Fabien Givors (Debian)
On 27/10/2013 18:54, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Fabien Givors (Debian) f+deb...@chezlefab.net wrote: I'm rather against that. --force-all does't only force removal of essential packages, but also AFAIK installation from untrusted sources, etc. More

Bug#727680: “Yes, do as I say!“ sounds odd

2013-10-26 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 26/10/2013 03:45, Christian PERRIER a écrit : Quoting David Prévot (taf...@debian.org): P.-S. : trying hard not to go the nitpicking way of challenging « je vous dis » for a typing interface ;-). Oh, yes! Please challenge that wording. I