Bug#42554: A proposal for README.Debian

[Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>]

On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 03:24:26PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > Oh. I just didn't see any reason why a sysadmin would particularly care
> > unless they were about to recompile it. 
> I agree with Richard Braakman: you have two sort of compile
> options. Those who were necessary to build but have no visible influence
> for the user of a binary package (--include=/foo/bar) and those who do
> have an influence and are of interest to all users (not only the sysadmin,
> BTW), like -DCRLF in netatalk.

Ah, yes, I see. Probably some different wording would be better (user
visible like Richard suggests maybe), but this would be very nice.

Cheers,
aj

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