Re: binutils on mips*
On 01/09/2017 02:30 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On 01/09/2017 02:27 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 02:19:44PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
>>>> itself in). What was I supposed to do?
>>> Either convince Matthias to apply a fix to Debian's binutils package, or
>>> NMU it.
>>
>> wait, what? either convince the maintainer to do something or if the
>> maintainer stays unconvinced then one should ignore that and NMU?
>>
> This is not about unconvinced it's about unilaterally blocking 3 ports
> you don't like in the hope it'll get those ports removed from the
> release. I don't think we should accept that.
>
(And "a fix" could be "revert the package to a version before the
breakage", if the objection is to applying a patch before it's committed
upstream; but I'm not sure how much weight that objection has anyway,
given the amount of "apply proposed patch" going on in binutils' Debian
changelog)
Julien
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