❦ 28 août 2015 10:29 +0200, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> :
>> What will happen is that maintainers will fallback to the second less >> horrible solution and cripple the package (by using an older version of >> the JS lib for example) to allow it to stay in main. > > Why would they want to stay in main? [...] > I had the same issue with loadlin: it could only be built on MS-DOS with > the proprietary tasm, and thus got #356055. I thus extended the free > yasm to recognized the tasm syntax, and patched loadlin a bit to remove > some extensions which were hard to implement in yasm but easy to replace > in loadlin. > > Then it could stay in main. Here is why. -- Choose variable names that won't be confused. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)
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