On 06/06/2011 01:08 PM, Ingy dot Net wrote: > I agree completely with what you way. I have not once (please correct me if > I am wrong) suggested a silver bullet. the only "silver-bullet-ish" proposal i've seen is the suggestion that humans should not be involved in the review of what packages should make it into the official debian archive. > I am simply advocating that CPAN people should start caring about Debian, > and all other downstreams. I believe that, in the common case, they don't > know the first thing about them. I am simultaneously advocating that the > full power of programming be used to make this as trivial as possible. Yep, i think you're right on all counts here, and i think the work you're doing sounds awesome. Making it easier for software authors to *know* about these issues (and some proposed simple solutions) will make it easier for them to fix things. Thank you for doing this! --dkg
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