Hi, On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 05:12:08PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 08.05.2008, 16:15 +0200 schrieb Nicolas François: > > There has been recently a few threads about a recommended usage for > > podebconf-report-po, so I plan to add an EXAMPLES section in its manpage. > > I wonder, wouldn't it be convenient to have podebconf-report-po > actually /use/ the recommended things as default instead of insisting on > the package maintainers to read up about its usage and maybe miss the > one or the other? What happened to the principle of sensible defaults > that should be used? > > I'm sorry if that might sound a bit harsh, but from a package > maintainer's point of view, when a new switch is added and it is > considered best practise, isn't that a clear hint that that switch > should rather be on by default requiring from the users to pull them all > out, one after the other? > > It might be too late to go that path, and people might claim "it always > behaved this way, not everyone might use these (default) switches", but > actually I wonder how many don't use --with-translators for a start.
No, changing the default makes sense. Thanks. I will make --languageteam the default. I will also make --withtranslators the default in the --call mode. (new configuration file will be added to be able to get the current behavior back) Should --deadline be a default option too? or Should --deadline without argument default to $(LC_ALL=C date -R -d +10days) I could also make --deadline argument to be passed to date -d. Thanks for the comments, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
