On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:30:44PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Yes, I thought it might be an aid to developers, if the version of > > debconf in testing/unstable displayed this information. Even if just a > > few of the most commonly used UIs supported it, I'm sure we'd start to > > see the benefits. > I'll try to cobble something together. If someone who is familiar with > the gnome ui would like to find a set of 4 small icons, that somehow > indicate the priorities low, medium, high, and critical I'd appreciate > it. I really think it's better to present the priorities textually -- having to figure out icons reduces the number of eyeballs helping us look for priority bugs. As I think this is a feature that belongs only in development versions of debconf, it seems that this should be a principal goal. > > Another thing that I feel is missing is a set of clear guidelines > > describing how each of the debconf priorities should be used. I have my > > own ideas about this, which may or may not agree with the ideas of the > > debconf author and certainly don't agree with current practices within > > Debian. If such a set of guidelines does exist, clearly I'm unaware of > > their existence -- which means, IMHO, that they haven't been announced > > as prominently as they should be. > Well, there is the documented guidelines, from debconf-devel(8): > The priority field tells debconf how important it > is that this question be shown to the user. The > priority values are: > > low Very trivial items that have defaults that > will work in the vast majority of cases; > only control freaks see these. > > medium Normal items that have reasonable defaults. > > high Items that don't have a reasonable default. > > critical > Items that will probably break the system > without user intervention. Ah, must be where I got the idea, then. ;) So then the question is, do debconf'ing developers not understand this passage, or do they not read it? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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