Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently
Hi Diederik,
You're probably right that it deserves a separate bug, but I was trying
to avoid wasting the translators time by doing this in two steps, and
forcing them to do the work twice.
I cannot say that I have read the stuff in these dialogs (except when
editing them) for at least 20 years, so tailoring the content of them
for people like me seems like a mistake. I was therefore trying to put
myself in the position of a person that's reading them for the first
time, and perhaps a person that's installing Linux for the first time.
Having helped people to install Linux for ~30 years, I'd say that it's
the norm for people to be almost incapable of coming up with a decent
password if they were not expecting the question.
As I said, I'm happy to hear better suggestions, since I've had about 15
attempts at this so far, and every time I see the text rendered in the
D-I screenshot, I end up not liking the result very much.
If you want to make a constructive contribution, how about suggesting a
wording that reflects the advice that you think would be most useful to
the people that actually read the advice?
If nothing like a consensus is available, then just removing the old
advice seems like an OK place to end up too, which is why I went to the
effort of splitting the commits.
Cheers, Phil.
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Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil
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