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Re: Bug#250202: Get this over with



On Oct 11, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:

> I thought that README.source is intended to help casual packages
> maintainers (or people who are forced to do a maintainer's task
> because of some emergency).  A way to obtain the real source code from
> which the package is built is not sufficient.  Changes to these
> sources might not survive a dpkg-buildpackage run in some cases (a big
> oops if your critical but non-testable security fix is silently
> discarded).
I can't see how README.source would solve this problem. Is an user is
stupid enough to not notice that changes made to source unpacked at
build time will not be preserved then I'd say he has no business
building debian package (or any other kind of software... this is not
some arcane knowledge, just good old common sense).

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ciao, |
Marco | [8490 avV0XMqLldcjI]

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