On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:57:14PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I would not seriously expect anyone to sponsor a package of mine with an outstanding > > issue like that. > > please read the whole mail about his debian/rules and why i prefere to > not sponsor such packages. giving the impression, i wouldn't sponsor > packages due to whitespaces or empty lines is not fair. > I did not mean to imply that you refused to sponsor someone's packages over whitespace. I was simply trying to say that it is ok to point things out. However, *I* happen to think that it is wrong to refuse to sponsor a package because someone prefers to do something one way and you prefer to see it done differently. As you and a number of other people have pointed out, no one is forcing you to sponsor anyone's packages. You can feel free to require that people make a photograph of themselves in a yellow chicken suit available on the Internet before you will sponsor a package. That is if that sort of thing strikes your fancy, since it is just as arbitrary as having whitespace done a certain way. I think Joey Hess has the right idea in how he points out that it is better to focus on things like security, rather than whitespace. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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