Panu Kalliokoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 03:16:50PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: >> And do whatever needs to be done so a .diff.gz shows up in my browser, >> rather than making me download it :) >> More seriously, this brings me to a practical reason to use non native >> packages (and of course pristine, where possible). These are not just >> theoretical things, but actively make things more difficult for me. > > That's a good point. Actually, the only thing that still troubles me > with these rationales is that they apply equally well to Debian specific > packages. IOW, to ease peer review and NMU'ing, _every_ package should > be non-native, with no exception.
I don't agree. If every new upload would be a new upstream version, it doesn't help you much to see that the diff.gz didn't change except for the changelog. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
