Re: Packaging Process - PLEASE READ

Axel Thimm <[email protected]> Thu, 27 May 2004 20:37:23 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.atrpms.repo-coordination
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 08:00:56PM +0200, Bent Terp wrote:
> > send it upstream and it can be fixed... everything else is
> > butchering with alot bork potential. especially if just blindly
> > done on a new release.
> 
> [...] And sending makefile.diff upstream isn't going to make these
> professors change their minds....

I know what Bent is talking about. "Patch? No, thanks, my trousers are
OK. But what do you mean that make shouldn't start to run the program?
configure? Of course, I thought of that, just edit the first 6 sources
files, I tried to move everything to the top of the files."

Honestly, in the field of numerical simulation of high energy physics,
where I come from, changes are usually propagated in form of complete
files, not diffs. Most scientists don't know about diff/patch. and
some don't even know about mime and use manual uuencode ...
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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