On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:51:58 +0100 Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 22 February 2007 01:17, Francesco Poli wrote: > > I set the severity of this bug to "important" bug, since it has a > > major effect on the usability of a package, but I strongly believe > > that etch debian-installer should *not* be released with such a > > usability issue. > > This issue has been in partman for quite some time. There's absolutely > no reason to consider it anything than a cosmetic issue. I'm sorry, but I have to strongly disagree. Creating the graphical installer was useful to solve a cosmetic issue. This is instead a usability issue: user interface consistency is one of the key principles of usability. When the user asks for a value and gets another one, just because the same symbol is used with different meanings on input and output, he/she gets heavily confused and goes away telling other people that Debian is too hard to install... Believe me, I lost almost half an evening in trying to understand what was going on, before I figured out that "MB" was being used with two different meanings on input and output. And I consider myself as an informed user, especially on unit of measurement issues... > We'll look at this at our leasure after Etch has been released. > Leaving severity at important, even though you could just as well > argue for minor. I could argue for grave, IMHO. > > Your testing and feedback is appreciated, but we're not going to delay > the release or hazard the stability of the code we have now by making > rash changes to fix this. As I said, I think that this is something that should really be fixed *before* etch is out. It's well known that Debian releases when it's ready: I don't think that partman in the current status is actually ready. -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html Need to refresh your keyring in a piecewise fashion? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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