Hi! Petter Reinholdtsen [2005-07-05 11:00 +0200]: > [Hamish Moffatt] > > I thought policy said something stronger than that, but I seem to be > > wrong. Best practice used to be to ask questions only when there was > > no sensible default whatsoever. Not to ask everything possible just > > because you can. > > Keeping the question priority at 'low' make sure most users will not > see the question, and that only reconfigure will present it. I hope > you are not setting the debconf priority limit to low. :)
Indeed, but IMHO low questions are just a waste of packaging work and, moreover, waste the time of translators who do not see the priority from the templates. There is a reason that packages generally don't ask for user-related configurations (ever seen "vim: do you want to enable syntax highlightning by default?"). It does make sense on complicated server packages which should run out of the box, but changing the user interface of a graphical editor is neither complicated, nor is it necessary to make the package work. Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian Developer http://www.debian.org
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