Re: misuse of debconf notes

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

    Joey> It would probably be best to use note for what it was
    Joey> designed for, which is dispalying error messages, which are
    Joey> a particular type of message that it does make sense to
    Joey> assign a priority to (which is why I didn't consider the
    Joey> above scenarios and issues much when I put notes into
    Joey> debconf), and go with a separate mechanism for the chatty
    Joey> notes stuff, if that stuff is really necessary.

OK, so effectively a note of priority less than high is probably
wrong or at least you'd rather not have to deal with thinking about it?


I'm not trying to waste your time; I honestly don't have a good feel
for what to do and not to do.