On Fri, Oct 24, 2014, at 13:08, Karel Zak wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:44:31PM -0400, JWP wrote: > > This patch set cleans up various message output. > > It contains cosmetic changes only. > > > > J William Piggott (5): > > hwclock: Remove newline from 'date' debug output > > hwclock: clean up message periods/full stops > > hwclock: add message line breaks > > hwclock: Fix --date debug messages > > hwclock: version prints out of order > > I'm going to merge these patches, Please no. Not the mere period and linebreak changes. > but as a long term solution it would > better to use include/debug.h stuff (see for example > misc-utils/whereis.c or libmount/src/init.c). In hwclock the "debug" messages are gettextized, because in fact they are verbose messages to help the user understand what hwclock is doing. They are not meant to find programming errors in hwclock; if that were the case, they wouldn't be gettextized, because a programmer needs to be able to read an write English anyway. Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html