Le Mar 18 Avril 2006 07:23, Benjamin Seidenberg a écrit : > Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 17 April 2006 at 22:42, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > | There are a few dozen source packages in the archive that contain > > | a file called debian/rules.old. In many cases, this was > > | apparently the backup copy during a cdbs conversion or something > > | similar that should have been removed. If you appear below, > > | please consider fixing this. > > > > Sure, but why? Doesn't exactly do harm, does it? > > > > Dirk (not sub'ed on d-devel so please CC me) > > Any unnecessary cruft is a waste of both mirror space and bandwidth. > I know the college I'm going to next year has a 2 gb/month cap on the > net. Anything over that, and you pay. (And I currently transfer 30+gb > over lan+net...ouch). hhhmmmmpffffff ahahahahahaha that is the worse explanation I've ever heard :) I will remove my rules.old in php-json because it's a mistake and I like clean debian/ dirs. but please, not the bandwith argument for a file that is often less than 2ko big, and that only pollutes the *source* diff.gz (meaning that it's rarely downloaded by users) -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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