Bug#336729: inconsistent and ugly output messages

Martin Michlmayr tbm at cyrius.com
Tue Nov 1 06:39:31 UTC 2005


Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-18
Severity: minor

I just got the following messages during upgrade:

| Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
| Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst .
| Searching for splash image... none found, skipping...
| Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686
| Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

This is all pretty minor but there are several things that could be
improved here:

 - the messages are not consistent with regards to spacing before
   an ellipsis.  In Debian it's common to put a space there.

 - in the first two lines, the dot at the end looks a bit strange
   since it has a space before... in fact, it's also inconsistent
   with the last but one line where no dot is printed at the end.
   I suggest no dot is printed in the former two cases either.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/




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