On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:26:20PM +0000, Ben Finney wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes: > > > FFS let's do not a mua and m-f-t wars. Set your MFT and my MUA will > > honour that. > > What I've requested is laid out in the Debian mailing list code of > conduct as behaviour to be expected in the absence of explicit > requests. A Mail-Followup-To field setting may or may not count as an > explicit request; in the absence of that, the code of conduct should > apply. oh boy, are we really "fighting" over a dupe of a mail ? wasting 4k of data and two keystrokes ? (in mutt, D~=\n will remove dupes, kmail has the same functionnality, and most decent MUA do to). CoC is meant to reduce rudeness, not technical issues from another century. > > debian/patches is the proper place to put your changes. > > Is it? Where is that stated to be required for all packages throughout > Debian? For any reasonnably sized package, yes it should. Though it's not required. The same way it's not required to use debhelper, even if something like 90% of the archive do. Don't mix up things that are mandatory, with best practices. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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