Bug#250202: Get this over with
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:13:58AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Oct 11, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> > Which part about "emergency maintenance" is so hard to understand?
> >
> > The system administrators I know can compile Apache+OpenSSL+PHP from
> > scratch, but would have trouble to apply a PHP security patch to the
> > Debian package (even though most of them have basic experience with
> > the way Debian packages are created).
>
> I do not consider this to be a problem.
>
> It would be stupid to add documentation for build systems in every
> non-trivial package.
If you're going to use systems which many people who need to tweak them
will find difficult to use, then, stupid or not, you need to document
them.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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