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Re: Someone to 'proofread' a .deb please



On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:45:25 -0600
Paul Gevers <paul@climbing.nl> wrote:

> >> It is simply unacceptable to have the debian/ directory in the
> >> upstream source.
> 
> So how to complain about packages that don't want to change the
> policy? I filed a bug at upstream [1] but it was a wontfix.

Why? What was the excuse? You'll need to persuade upstream that it is
not acceptable. How you do that is up to you - one of the main skills
of a maintainer is persuading upstream to fix things properly.

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Neil Williams
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