Re: Is the dependency rule distribution-wise?
On 25 Feb 1999, James Troup wrote:
>
> > Giving the package maintainers more control over the overrides for
> > their own packages seems a good strategy. Can you tell us why this
> > approach was abandoned earlier?
>
> How about because a certain developer would be free to NMU like it was
> going out of fashion to ``fix'' crushingly urgent priority bugs?
That's not a reason, is it?
Jules
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