On 2013-12-08 16:19:18 +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 2013/12/8 Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>: > > Well, very annoying bugs make a package unusable in practice, because > > people wouldn't want it on their machine. Think about a package that > > would blank the screen every minute... I also wondered whether this > > bug should be raised to grave, mainly so that users could notice it > > with apt-listbugs before upgrading. But since it will be fixed soon, > > this may not matter very much. > Blanking the screen effectively prevents you from doing work, while > log-spam is just annoying, but can be ignored otherwise.
No, it can't be ignored. I work almost exclusively with text terminals (Iceweasel and local Emacs instances are the exceptions). Having spam in these terminals is a bit like screen blanking, and is actually worse: with screen blanking, just unblank it when it occurs (e.g. by moving the mouse). Concerning spam in terminals, unless a curses application is running in it, there's no way to discard the spam. The user gets permanently distracted, copy-paste of large blocks will contain spam, some data that should fit in a window will no longer fit because of spam in the middle, etc. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
