On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:29:58AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Daniel many times told me that for example, I shouldn't use 2 blank > lines on my debian/rules, don't have empty space a end of line in my > copyright, and things like that. > > I agree it doesn't mater MUCH, but it's still better the way he advise > me to correct. And do you really thing it's SO BAD and that it takes SO > MUCH time to do those little changes, or to try to comply with what he > thinks is good? I think it's all right, and that it helps to have > something more clean and easy to read... I also think it's ridiculous to > complain about somebody's perfectionism. > Right. But are things like two blank lines in debian/rules and blank space at the end of the line policy issues? No. I too am a perfectionist, but I also recongnize that not everyone is. If request sponsorship for a package and the potential sponsor points out issues with the package, then that is fine. If the issues are policy driven or otherwise "mandated" then I will certainly fix them. I would not seriously expect anyone to sponsor a package of mine with an outstanding issue like that. However, I choose to not change things which are a matter of preference, then that should not impact the sponsor's willingness to sponsor the package. For the potential sponsor to do that would come off as elitist. What if I like two blank lines in debian/rules to break up the sections logically? If I like it that way and the potential sponsor does not, but the policy says nothing about it, then who is right? The same goes for whitespace at the end of a line somewhere? Is it really that important? There are likely hundreds of these little sorts of preference issues out there. I don't think that pointing them out is wrong, but I don't think that someone forcing their view of what they think is right is justified, unless there is something in policy or the developer reference or lintian/linda to provide justification. Regards, -Roberto Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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