Re: [PATCH 0/5] hwclock: clean up messages

[JWP <elseifthen@gmx.com>]

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
>