Re: UHU linux and forking in general [was: Re: Bug#176267: ITP:mplayer -- Mplayer is a full-featuredaudioand video player for UN*X likesystems]
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:42:15AM +0100, Csillag Kristof wrote:
> Well, I mean no offense, but IMHO its a Bad Thing (tm) to fork and screw
> up the Debian package management system. I dont's think package management
> has _anything_ to do with languages.
>
> If those changes to dpkg are useful, they should have been commited to
> Debian, instead of creating a new and incompatible version.
Apart from the fact that you can't just commit stuff to dpkg like that,
I agree to your statement. It would be nice if somebody could contact
the uhu-maintainers (if they don't happen to read -devel) what the
changes are and why they were done.
Michael
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in C Ada zu schreiben, ohne den Compiler das merken zu lassen."
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