Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Yes, because you ingored the discussion on -policy and implemented > whatever you wanted and then expected it to just become accepted.
Because in my opinion that discussion didn't produce any good alternative. > What? It comes from Debian and has an alternate bug location. What exactly > is wrong with that? So what should I use for an origin tag in this case? > Debian129? Some long random string of digits? Debian has its own BTS. WTF would you want a Debian package use an alternative BTS? It is either a real part of the distribution and should be treated as such, or not. > > Lots of people don't use networks or apt. Any scheme that relies on > > either of those is broken. > > Yeah right. 'Lots' of people don't use dpkg and bug reporting tools too. > Better make sure to cater to those minorities too!! You are being way to > selective in which minority is important here. I'll cater to any minority if possible. > Having APT maintain the cannonical Origin data as it collects the > information from CDs and remote sites is a really good idea which would > make this scheme alot more worthwhile. It would break for fewer people > than what you are pushing! So tell me what I'm breaking? I haven't yet heard anything that breaks. > > > This was brought up before too -- Debian packages probably should not be > > > tagged at all. Otherwise derived distributions will have to go and > > > unset/reset this which means a full dist recompile! > > > > They can just change the /etc/dpkg/origins/debian file. > > Screw those packages that are actually from Debian eh? Nice hack. What are you trying to achieve with not tagging Debian packages? If a derived distro wants to get bugreports for a modified package they have to change it anyway and don't need to modify /etc/dpkg/origins/debian. If they don't then the default setup is just fine. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
