Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package

[Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 03:59:22PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > As far as I understand it, this file is used by the author of the 
> > > program, not end users. I don't understand it well, though, because I 
> > > haven't put much time into researching what versioneer even does.
> > > If my hunch is correct, I may be able to just remove the file from the 
> > > source altogether, but I haven't tried that yet.
> > 
> > Well, it's used by the program to show the version info, so it's
> > *eventually* used by users for sure.
> > 
> > I think just removing the file is a good first guess.
> 
> Removing the file is a bad idea!  Replacing it with the PyPI version
> (through debian/patches) is a much better approach.  (And possibly
> excluding the file in debian/copyright as well.)

Ah, scrap my comment - listen to Timo instead!

Best wishes,

   Julian