Re: Doing RFS on -mentors
Panu Kalliokoski <atehwa@sange.fi> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 03:16:50PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>> And do whatever needs to be done so a .diff.gz shows up in my browser,
>> rather than making me download it :)
>> More seriously, this brings me to a practical reason to use non native
>> packages (and of course pristine, where possible). These are not just
>> theoretical things, but actively make things more difficult for me.
>
> That's a good point. Actually, the only thing that still troubles me
> with these rationales is that they apply equally well to Debian specific
> packages. IOW, to ease peer review and NMU'ing, _every_ package should
> be non-native, with no exception.
I don't agree. If every new upload would be a new upstream version, it
doesn't help you much to see that the diff.gz didn't change except for
the changelog.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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