Bug#168465: state of #168465

[Josip Rodin <joy@debbugs.entuzijast.net>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:14:05PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> package apt
> tags 168465 +wontfix
> thanks
> 
> >There's no point in printing the statistics for all these individual
> >requests, especially when they're all zeros (sometimes it'll include
> >other numbers, but that's still usually irrelevant for the situation
> >at hand).
> I disagree. That's common statistics, printed in the end of each
> install/remove operation.

The program hasn't done anything to affect any statistics. Do you really see
any point to printing the zeroes, and if so could you clarify it?

> >It's a badly designed message, because it slows down people's scanning of
> >the screen -- it's common for the error message to be printed last. :)
> I disagree. Look at gcc/make, for example, actual error may be printed several
> pages before the end for messages.

So, another bad example somehow makes this bad example - all right? :)

> For now, bug is marked as 'wontfix'.

Please don't do obviously contentious changes to bugs without notifying
others (which you did by mailing the quiet bug address).

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