On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:17:23 -0700 Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:

> On Wednesday, 11 June 2008, at 09:12:16 (+0800),
> Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> 
> > one way, or another, we tried to help debian packaging by providing
> > the stuff they need. they soundly rejected our help as unhelpful to
> > them. after much bemoaning on their part of it being a pain, we
> > agree dot keep debian pkg info in cvs, but not ship in dist
> > tarballs. that is how all of cvs works. or should.  eet being
> > different would be inconsistent. that alone means it should stay
> > as-is. all we will do is bring up the whole issue again and go
> > through it all again. :(
> 
> If you don't want to discuss it again, that's fine.  We can move on.
> But I think it's extremely selfish of the Debian developers to do
> this.
> 
> I'll keep track of the e-mail addresses of the guilty parties to hand
> out when people come around asking about it.  :-)

indeed do, but you know debian - they have all these "rules" that must be
followed. and then again - only debian uses debian packages really - or it's
all based off debian (eg ubuntu) etc. so the same "rules" apply the moment
a .deb is involved. rpm is more open in that respect.

> Michael
> 
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> Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX)  http://www.kainx.org/  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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