reassign 254998 policy thanks On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 10:24 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > While it is working dpkg prints messages like these: > > Setting up foo (1.0) ... > > Policy 9.4 gives the following advice for the writing of initscripts. > > If you want to express that the computer is working on > something (that is, performing a specific task, not starting > or stopping a program), we use an "ellipsis" (three dots: > "..."). Note that we don't insert spaces before or after the > dots. If the task has been completed we write "done." and a > line feed. > > Thus initscripts print messages like these: > > Initialising bar...done. > > When packages are being installed initscripts sometimes get run; > thus one sees a mixture of dpkg-style "working" messages and > initscripts-style "working" messages. Consistency of style would > be better aesthetically so I suggest that dpkg's messages be > changed to follow the policy for initscripts' messages. > Given "dpkg-style" predates policy by quite some time, I suggest that it is Policy that should change, if anything. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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