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Re: Lintian ERROR saying dpatch is obsolete



Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Alexander Wirt wrote:

>> The question is: who decides? I have a bunch of packages and an
>> established workflow that served me well over the last years. I don't
>> want to learn another *censored* system, just because someone said its
>> the new standard or it is better. I can't remember that somebody asked
>> about deprecating well established and working tools.

> Simple answer: the maintainer(s) of that tool.  If he/she/they think it
> needs to go, then it should.

If someone else is willing to be the maintainer of the tool (as is the
case here), I think it's a bit more complicated than that.  I find Zack's
argument persuasive, but I don't think the situation is as simple as
"whatever the dpatch maintainer says goes."

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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