Re: Bug#178656: netselect: many trailing whitespaces
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:55:09AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Dear QA group, was I wrong in encouraging efficiency?
Maybe in an ideal world we might care about a couple of bytes of
whitespace here and there. In the real world, which I fear that we have
to live in, there are far more important things to worry about, like the
fact that we have a bunch of packages that don't even install properly,
glibc in unstable hasn't been testing-worthy for months, we have way too
many bugs with the security tag attached, etc. I'm quite sure many of
the *real* bugs in Debian are unreported. Please stop wasting the
already pretty limited time of the QA group trying to drag it into
trivial cosmetic issues.
Yes, frankly, if you want to help I do suggest you find something ever
so slightly more productive to do than file vanishingly trivial bugs
about trailing whitespace, and if you must do so then do not whine to
random mailing lists and already-overworked package maintainers when
people aren't interested. I'm pretty certain that this thread alone has
already used more bandwidth than would be saved by removing those spaces
from packages, for instance (remembering that applying diffs to make
cosmetic changes to upstream source files makes the archive larger). At
least spelling bugs, which are the most trivial things I'd ever consider
filing, are visible and cause a bad impression.
I suggest that any followups should be taken away from at least
178656@bugs.debian.org and lintian@packages.debian.org.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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