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Bug#685746: Seeking seconds for a patch to deal with remaining issues in this old bug



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Hello,

On Mon 23 Jul 2018 at 08:09AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> It comes down to what "might not work" means.
>
> For example, "might reformat your hard drive" is an example of "might not
> work".
>
> This might seem pedantic, but it really isn't: I've seen packagers argue
> that they are not responsible for what happens on user systems that do not
> install Recommends before.

On Mon 23 Jul 2018 at 05:42PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:

> I'm not convinced this is an improvement FWIW.  This seems to discount
> plausibly valid bugs out of hand without defining acceptable failure modes.

Thank you both for your replies.  I agree.  My patch is not an
improvement.  I would like to blame DebCamp jetlag for how halfbaked my
attempt was :)

I will think harder about what we can do about this bug.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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