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Re: RFS: checkinstall



Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> For this specific case: it's definately good to modify upstream to change
> things that are Debian specific. You probably change the config file path
> in the source, for example. If you do that, why shouldn't you patch the
> documentation aswell? What use is it to provide incorrect information to
> the end user only to correct it in some other file?
Mmmh... Makes a lot of sense if you put it that way. However, I'm still a
bit doubtful, since the purpose for README.Debian is to note Debian
specific things about the package, meanwhile README et al are supposed to
be upstream's documentation.

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Felipe Sateler



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