Roberto C Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, I choose to not change things which are a matter of preference, > then that should not impact the sponsor's willingness to sponsor the > package. For the potential sponsor to do that would come off as > elitist. What if I like two blank lines in debian/rules to break up the > sections logically? If I like it that way and the potential sponsor > does not, but the policy says nothing about it, then who is right?
No one is *right*, necessarily, but sponsors aren't under any obligation to sponsor packages. Daniel is dealing with about fifty times as many packages as I ever could even when I was actively sponsoring, but he doesn't have to sponsor anything he doesn't want to sponsor. As much as he's doing a large chunk of the sponsoring these days, there are still other people willing to sponsor packages. > The same goes for whitespace at the end of a line somewhere? Is it > really that important? There are likely hundreds of these little sorts > of preference issues out there. I don't think that pointing them out is > wrong, but I don't think that someone forcing their view of what they > think is right is justified, unless there is something in policy or the > developer reference or lintian/linda to provide justification. There's no forcing. Daniel's doing people a favor which he's under no obligation to do. People who want him for a sponsor have to do things his way; people who don't want to do that are certainly no worse off than if Daniel wasn't sponsoring anything at all. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
