Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format
On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Russ Allbery wrote:
> If you don't care about checking the patches, it takes fifteen minutes one
> time to write a shell script and then less than ten seconds to run it
> before you do an upload.
See my other answer. This is conceptually wrong, because you might
end up with a *wrong* patch and the old one is destroyed due to the
refresh (patch just messed it up .. and I didn't realize it, uuups).
I am against this kind of automatism. I prefer to be *reminded* that
there is something worth looking into. And I can decide myself that
if in this patch there is a off-by-one, I don't need to check.
But in other patches I have to check.
Again, my responsability, that is what I want. Not dpkg-source holding
my hand like a baby: "don't don't don't do that!"
Best wishes
Norbert
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