On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:55:09AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Dear QA group, was I wrong in encouraging efficiency?
Maybe in an ideal world we might care about a couple of bytes of whitespace here and there. In the real world, which I fear that we have to live in, there are far more important things to worry about, like the fact that we have a bunch of packages that don't even install properly, glibc in unstable hasn't been testing-worthy for months, we have way too many bugs with the security tag attached, etc. I'm quite sure many of the *real* bugs in Debian are unreported. Please stop wasting the already pretty limited time of the QA group trying to drag it into trivial cosmetic issues. Yes, frankly, if you want to help I do suggest you find something ever so slightly more productive to do than file vanishingly trivial bugs about trailing whitespace, and if you must do so then do not whine to random mailing lists and already-overworked package maintainers when people aren't interested. I'm pretty certain that this thread alone has already used more bandwidth than would be saved by removing those spaces from packages, for instance (remembering that applying diffs to make cosmetic changes to upstream source files makes the archive larger). At least spelling bugs, which are the most trivial things I'd ever consider filing, are visible and cause a bad impression. I suggest that any followups should be taken away from at least [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
