FWIW, I'm very disappointed in this thread so far -- everyone in it seems to be missing between 50 and 90% of the point of my blog post. Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Oh and don't try to ask for complete uniformity in packaging, there > are 1000 DDs, 10 times as many packages, different needs (you don't > package a perl extension like you package mozilla or gcc or a java > library) hence you can't ask people to use the same tools each time. > That would be like asking all our software to be written only in ruby. Or all debian/rules in make.. > And well, yeah, you may not be able to understand a package using > dpatch e.g. because it's a really way too complicated patch system, but > well, then there is another DD that does, and will be able to provide > patches. We are a thousand, with very various abilities and skills. It's > nonsense to ask for everybody being able to do anything in Debian. Especially when "anything" is something as unusual as "obtain the complete patched source to a package so one can run make on it". -- see shy jo
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