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Re: Inconsistency wrt to ellipsis (...)



Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> d-i is not consistent in the use of ...  For example, partman writes:
>     Scanning disks ...
> whereas base-config writes
>     Installing core packages...
> and most *-installer packages don't use dots in their progress notes
> at all.
> 
> Can we
>   a) agree on one usage
>   b) document this (together with other common debconf usages in d-i)
>   c) get someone to unify the existing messages

I vote for a space after, note that dpkg and apt are not consistent
either. :-) I think that more of d-i uses a space than not, we inherited
some strings from debootstrap without spaces, iirc.

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