Bug#254998: reopen

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>]

reopen 254998
severity 254998 wishlist
thanks

> The fact that dpkg does not follow what the policy recommends
> is by no means a policy bug.  It also is not clear that section 9.4
> applies to dpkg in the first place (dpkg is not an initscript).

I agree that this is not a policy bug; that is why I filed it against
dpkg.  I don't think that dpkg is violating policy either; if I did, I
would have set the severity higher.

I think that the dpkg maintainer wrongly reassigned this report to
policy.  Not wanting to play BTS tennis, I refrained from reassigning it
back to dpkg until this report could gather more comments.

The motivation for this report is that the user sees sometimes "blah..."
and sometimes "blah ..." when installing packages.  This looks untidy.
If this aesthetic consideration is of no importance at all (not even
warranting minor or wishlist severity) then I agree with the closing of
the bug.  Otherwise the "transition plan" is simple: edit the strings in
dpkg with s/ \.\.\./\.\.\./g.  I don't see what is so difficult about
that, and no one has yet said what obstacles there are to doing it.

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Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>