Re: Packaging Process - PLEASE READ
Axel Thimm <[email protected]> Thu, 27 May 2004 20:37:23 +0200
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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 _______________________________________________ repo-coord mailing list [email protected] http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/repo-coord
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