reopen 388952 tags 388952 wontfix thanks > I don't know what this holy war is all about, but I disagree. Unless there is > an absolute policy change that will force the qmail-src package out of the > distro, I'm not changing it.
Please don't use too strong words just to express your disagreement, and please leave room for discussion instead of just closing it. This is why I reopen this bug report and (hopefully temporarily) tag it "wontfix". I won't reopen it if you close it again, but I ask you to consider leaving time for discussion. The bug report tried to explain why using low and medium priority notes is usually considered as a bad idea, even by the designer of the debconf protocol. The thread that starts at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00438.html gives the whole rationale and I suggest you consider some of the followups to my announcement. More precisely http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00443.html The default priority for debconf is high. This means that medium and low priority messages are not displayed to users of default installs. On the other hand, notes in debconf are designed and explicitely suggested to be used for information that is important enough for being displayed by debconf during the package installation or configuration and, indeed, stop the installation process. Choosing a low priority indeed means that you consider that information to be not very important....and in such case, it is suggested to use something else than debconf notes. This is the whole point of this mass bug filing. Mass bug filing are not holy wars, but rather an attempt to help maintainers to improve their packages. It is usually enough work to keep this for important enough stuff. In that specific case, the Debian translators are trying to lower the load induced by (sometimes very long) debconf notes which indeed prove to be essentially useless.
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