tags 672929 +wontfix thanks Hi Peter, First, thanks for your bugreport: I was somehow expecting a bug like yours. Le lundi, 14 mai 2012 21.23:51, vous avez écrit : > The new fancy output is neat and all, but it looks backwards, because > it's > > [ ok ] Doing something > > where the "ok" comes after the doing. The main reason for this decision is the size of the modern console screens: having the status blocks on the right makes them hard to connect back to their source in the rare occasions when you can still see them; given that X starts earlier and earlier these days and that ttys wipe the first screen at the end of the boot... > The normal progression should go from left to right, and so the "ok" should > be on the right side. I understand that reasoning. > This has also been long established practice in other distributions > (last time I checked), so I don't see why Debian needs to do this > differently. Please rethink this. This is overridable by both admins and derivative distributions through an /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh file. The next src:lsb release will allow packages and admins to drop snippets sourced by /lib/lsb/init-functions in /lib/lsb/init-functions.d/ (see 0202e4d6 commit from packaging repository); so this could definitely be overriden by a `lsb-info-blocks-right` package (which could even be a binary package built from src:lsb ; patches welcome). (We could even imagine two lsb-info-blocks-{left,right} packages which would break eachother and be recommends of lsb-base; IMHO silly but I'm open to be convinced.) I think choosing left or right info blocks positioning is a rather well balanced choice and I picked one of them. Given that either choice will make half users happy and the other half sad, I am not willing to play info blocks Pong: hereby tagging +wontfix. Feel free to either provide patches for a new lsb-info-blocks-right package (better name welcome too), edit /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh on systems where it matters or widen the discussion to -devel or -ctte. (I shall also note that I asked for opinions on -devel and only got positive feedback on this idea.) Best regards, OdyX
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