On 01/09/2017 02:30 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > On 01/09/2017 02:27 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 02:19:44PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: >>>> itself in). What was I supposed to do? >>> Either convince Matthias to apply a fix to Debian's binutils package, or >>> NMU it. >> >> wait, what? either convince the maintainer to do something or if the >> maintainer stays unconvinced then one should ignore that and NMU? >> > This is not about unconvinced it's about unilaterally blocking 3 ports > you don't like in the hope it'll get those ports removed from the > release. I don't think we should accept that. > (And "a fix" could be "revert the package to a version before the breakage", if the objection is to applying a patch before it's committed upstream; but I'm not sure how much weight that objection has anyway, given the amount of "apply proposed patch" going on in binutils' Debian changelog)
Julien
