Re: Bug#224742 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#224742: Related to this issue...)
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:02:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Do you find the "Essential: yes" flag unreasonable too?
No, because it talks about a quality. Something as "the way of testing
if that profile is valid" is not about a quality, but more like an
imperative command.
Do you think that in C having the construct "break;" illegal and
requiring to use "break yes;" or "break please;" instead would be
reasonable?
For the records (as I have seen people saying that), the main reason I
kept reopening the bug was not to force you on anything, but because I
was doubting you were understanding at all why I was asking for that.
Instead of getting any clues that you was getting what I was asking, I
was getting the bug continuously closed in my face. With threatens.
I find it reasonable to ask a maintainer to at least understand what a
wish is about before closing it, and that's why I acted as I did.
From your alternative proposal I was instead pretty sure we weren't
talking about the same thing. I tried to explain you, and I'm sorry you
didn't like the style (and I welcome you to be a non-native English
speaker and cope with people treating you as a stupid on busy days), but
the contents are there.
Ciao,
Enrico
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