On 20050517T120043-0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > If I were to receive a bug report, say wishlist severity, containing a > > patch that rewrites one of my packages' debian/rules to use debhelper, I > > would be very upset: it would feel like an insult toward my style of > > packaging. > > You need to grow a thicker skin. By your reasoning, any substantial > patch or code review is a personal attack; that is not an attitude that > is conducive to evolving good code.
Thank you for your strawman argument. As I said, if the patch makes an substantial improvement, one that is not just a matter of style, I am not offended. In fact, such patches I welcome. A rewrite of debian/rules that does not change its functionality, just to make it deblelperized, for example, does not usually fall in that category. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian
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