On 10/24/2014 07:48 AM, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014, at 13:08, Karel Zak wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:44:31PM -0400, JWP wrote: > > 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. I would agree that it should have been named --verbose. However, I have not suggested it because of Util-linux guidelines: >From util-linux//Documentation/howto-usage-function.txt "The rule of thumb with other options is that once they exist, you may not change them, nor change how they work, nor remove them." The --debug output is useful for testing and debugging, as I have used it as such many times. > > Benno > -- 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
