ot: debhelper (Re: FWD: dh_compress)

[Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >         If I recall the discussion that went on before that was
> >  included in policy correctly, we decided to let that be the decision
> >  of the developer (there is something to be said about allowing the
> >  developer some leeway ;-).
> 
> Well, sure. The problem is that in this particular case, "leaving it up to
> the developer" means leaving it up to _me_ for 70% of all packages. So I
> want to get it right.

I remember it passed the 50% mark but 70%? are you sure.

> Now, I could pass the buck by letting this be tunable in debhelper, but that
> seems silly.

No, how about the abilty to set the default with debconf when debhelper is 
being installed. Now that would be silly.

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