On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:23:34PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Yeah, I agree with your general argument, but I can also see where he's > coming from. He's applying the RPM model where this is how people > normally handle RPMs of software that Red Hat itself isn't maintaining. > He probably doesn't understand how much easier it is for people to use > apt-get --build source than it is for them to try to build from the > upstream tarball. People sometimes do this so they can ship something targetted at stable (one of my upstreams insists on doing this and also doesn't want to use any Debian tools since they don't run Debian). -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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