Hi Daniel. On Sun, 2013-06-02 at 01:03 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Unnecessary noise. Visual cues such as alternate colour are quite > attention grabbing and must be reserved for very important details > such as e.g. broken packages and changing state. The alternatives are > displayed in the common control file format, using an alternate colour > on the syntax characters is quite distracting. Well one could have done something like this with an option that defaults to off.
So everybody not liking it, could have left it as is. Apart from that, just colourising the bar | itself (I wasn't talking about the whole line of course), doesn't seem that intention grabbing, does it? Anyway, I think we do have a general problem in Debian, that one cannot really follow what one wants with respect to alternatives... as well as when such are added or dropped. Just yesterday I saw a case, where a package recommends some libsocket-perl | libsocket6-perl package or something like that. However, libsocket6-perl was already installed earlier as a "strict" dependency... so I never noticed that the other package recommended libsocket-perl. As a follow up, there was really functionality missing. And this is just a very simply example where alternatives were not even added/dropped on a new package version. Cheers, Chris.
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