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Re: Bits from the DPL



On 11003 March 1977, Charles Plessy wrote:

> Another intersting thing in Fink is their way to build the pacakges:
> they have sort of big control files with herescripts, and download the
> upstream sources directly from upstream instead of shipping them. See
> for instance:

Such a thing is a nightmare. We have such a broken tool in Debian, its
called yada, and noone sane uses it as you cant really maintain your packages
with it. (The yada maintainer and IIRC only user will, of course, disagree
here).

-- 
bye Joerg
Some NM:
>A developer contacts you and asks you to met for a keysign. What is
>your response and why?
Do you like beer? When do we meet? [...]



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