Re: Bug#178656: netselect: many trailing whitespaces
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:55:09AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Dear QA group, was I wrong in encouraging efficiency?
Actually, yes; the time that would be required to report and fix bugs like
this *vastly* outweighs the cost of a few bits of highly compressible extra
whitespace.
I'm glad you care about the quality of Debian, but we have to concentrate on
the most important issues if we want it to be the best.
Have fun,
Avery
> >>>>> "Avery" == Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@nit.ca> writes:
>
> Avery> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:51:03AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> >> Package: netselect
> >> Version: 0.3-4
> >> Severity: minor
> >> File: /usr/share/doc/netselect/README.gz
> >> Tags: upstream
> >>
> >> the above file has many trailing blanks, and even whole lines of
> >> blanks.
> >>
> >> grep ' $'
> >> can find them.
>
> Avery> Why on earth do we care? gzip is happy to "remove" them for us.
>
> Avery> Have fun,
>
> Avery> Avery
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