Quoting Russ Allbery (2022-12-16 17:07:00)
> Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> writes:
> > Quoting Russ Allbery (2022-12-15 17:41:15)
> 
> >> This is why I don't agree with Jonas: yes, there *are* other ways to
> >> achieve the same goal, but they're more complicated and harder to
> >> explain.  The user experience of this build profile looks a lot simpler
> >> and cleaner.
> 
> > I don't have a firm opinion here, so wonder what you disagree with,
> > Russ.
> 
> > For the record, prior to this thread Ian reached out to me privately
> > where we discussed my work on forking dh-cargo to behave more
> > "Debian-ish" than what is developed by the Rust team.
> 
> > Perhaps this is a language thing: When I "question" Ians proposed
> > approach, I do not imply that I reject it or am against it, only that I
> > want to better understand it.
> 
> Oh, I'm sorry, this is probably just a sequence of misunderstandings.  I
> think I misunderstood your message as being somewhat opposed, and then I
> think you read my "disagree" as stronger than I meant it.  All I was
> trying to say is that I think (based on my very sketchy understanding of
> build profiles) that this would have a lower bar of entry for building
> non-Debian packages as a stepping stone to proper Debian packages than
> pre-downloading the dependencies.

Ah, indeed I failed to read nuance into your post.  Sorry for my
unfounded criticism!

 - Jonas

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