On 02/14/2018 10:19 AM, Alad Wenter via aur-general wrote: > It's disappointing how everyone shifts the blame towards and > ridicules upstream, rather than respect their wishes regarding the > _packaging of their own code_. Those are practices that remind of > certain other distributions. But whatever - I shall not further argue > about it. > > John: Please include a post_install/post_upgrade message in your > package that warns users on _not_ to complain to upstream in case of > errors.
I'm not really sure this is comparable. I fully support the use of post_install/post_upgrade in this situation. On top of the fact that as opposed to e.g. xscreensaver :D we are not advertising this as the default version for users to install (it is explicitly a VCS development package). All I'm saying is I don't feel comfortable telling users they are not allowed to use it *at all*, because upstream asked us to forbid its packaging *period*. Anything we can do to ensure that users are alerted to the precise relationship this code has to upstream and the support thereof, can only be a good thing. This is rather different from censoring its existence. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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