On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:47:05AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 20:53, Brian May wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:40:47AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > I am happy to take it. But a question: with the more actively > > > maintained dput now being quite mature, do we still need both dupload > > > and dput? > > Dumb question, but what dput, and why is one better then the other? > > (please leave language flame wars out of discussion - we all know that > > <deleted/> is the best language). > I like dput's DWIM features. For example, it figures out automatically > whether or not a package is in non-US, and uploads to the correct > place. Works great, except the time I was trying to move a package to main from non-US as part of the crypto-in-main rollout, and dput sent the package to non-US even though the section listed in the local package clearly didn't point there. :) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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