Re: [Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#833309: "Browserified" stuff (knot-resolver-module-http: please package embedded epoch.js separately)

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Joerg Jaspert writes ("Re: [Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#833309: "Browserified" stuff (knot-resolver-module-http: please package embedded epoch.js separately)"):
> On 14466 March 1977, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > If you insist I can add build.sh script to the missing-source, but
> 
> No, you do not put it in missing-source foo. You use it during the build
> of your package, thats the correct thing to do.

I agree almost completely.  (You missed out an apostrophe.)

> > that's a new information for me that we are now doing distro
> > just for hipsters that can't read and write more than one twitter
> > message at the time, and can't read a simple makefile.
> 
> [You] forgot later updates to the package not done by you. There is
> no reason why a security team should have to learn the above steps. They
> should edit the source and just build the package and that should do the
> right thing.

I agree - modulo your use of an insult, which I have redacted (see
below).

> Not needing to dig up whatever crap may be needed for
> todays hip sillyscript transformation.

However, I think this kind of language is is really beyond the pale at
least for debian-devel.  If you want to rant like that please keep it
to places where the people you are insulting are absent.

I recommend bars.  (Having just got back from the pub myself, where we
had some good times ranting about various crap.)

Thanks,
Ian.

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