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Bug#727680: “Yes, do as I say!“ sounds odd



Quoting David Kalnischkies (kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com):

> Rational:
> Users who run into this question by 'accident' aren't saying yes to it;
> Users who know they will because they are changing e.g. the init system
  	    	      	   	   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Don't feed the troll..:-)

> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed:
>   apt
> The outlined actions are potentially very harmful, so executing them
> is refused by default, but can be forced with the --force-yes flag.
> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
> #
> 
> (I am open for a better suggestion regarding the actual message)

Maybe just go through the debian-l10n-english review?

> 
> It would be an interface change, but those aren't a problem, people
> depending on the old one could just keep using the old version. SCNR.
> What I really mean is: In this particular case, I really hope nobody
> is doing something as insane as depending on this. [0]
> 
> What do you two think?


+1 to drop that message

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