(Sorry, resent to the right bugreport, the one on quilt) Hi,
On Tue, 09 Dec 2008, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > For something to be able to detect a suboptimal order, the *optimal* > > order should have been documented in the first place. ;) > > Uhm, let me clarify: At best such issues should be fixed so that the > principle of "order does not matter" is restored. > > Only when order matters it should be documented how it affects the > functionality of the snippet and perhaps that of other snippets. > > I can even imaginge some cases of several orders being equally sane but > for different purposes. Such cases should also be documented. Only if a > non-sane ordering is detected it makes sense for a snippet to spew a > warning. > > Hope that helps. Both in the concrete case (the cloned bug) and for this > kind of issues in general (bug#508162). Concretely, I'm not a CDBS hacker, what can we change in patchsys-quilt.mk to ensure the patch is applied before the build machinery is called? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
