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Re: Bug#178251: slang: don't do a dh_testroot in clean



On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:58:18AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:

> I did leave the bug at severity 'minor'. The reason I ever filed it was
> because it broke some auto-building stuff I was doing. So it did matter
> at the time.

But dh_testroot is part of the clean target in the examples that come
with debhelper, and therefore probably in *every* debhelper-based
package in Debian (which is the vast majority of packages).  Why
single out the poor slang developer to pick on?

Now don't get me wrong, I don't want to discourage people from filing
bug reports.  Filing bug reports is generally a Good Thing, and I wish
more people did it.  But if there's some ambiguity involved, it can't
hurt to post to d-devel first (or in the case of policy-related issues
like this one, to d-policy), and say, "hey, this looks like a bug to
me, can anyone comment?"

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