Your message dated Wed, 19 May 2010 13:28:24 +0100
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and subject line Re: isn't sed s,x,x, one big no-op?
has caused the Debian Bug report #580459,
regarding isn't sed s,x,x, one big no-op?
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Package: grub-pc
X-debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Version: 1.98-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /etc/grub.d/00_header
#TL> I'm sure it's for a purpose. If you file a bug I'd suggest a wish list
#TL> category and tone like "Please document the purpose of ..."
Dear Grub Team: Please add a comment to the File to document the purpose of
"sed s,x,x,"
based on the discussion in
http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.linux.debian.user/thread=380890/
Thanks.
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tag 580459 wontfix
thanks
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 07:26:05AM +0800, [email protected] wrote:
> >>>>> "AS" == Andrew Sackville-West <[email protected]> writes:
>
> AS> ISTM that is much easier and more reliable to change one variable at
> AS> the beginning of the file than to change all the sed expressions
> AS> throughout the file...
>
> OK, but whatever they do, they should remember that it looks like
> Welcome to Windows<del>7</del>7!
> to the <del>customer</del> user, who is left scratching his head.
> I would be happy with even a "#trust us" comment added at that point.
This is fairly standard in packages using Autoconf's
program_transform_name feature. It isn't worth the effort in every
single package to prune it out in the trivial case, or to add comments
around every occurrence; people reading the source code should be able
to cope.
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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