On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:13:05PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> There was a discussion tonight about changes to build systems (e.g. 
> pycentral/pysupport to dh_python2 or cdbs to dh) and if they require an FFe.  
> I have always thought they did, but at least one developer was suprised.
> 
> IMO fixing a broken build system is one thing, redesigning it post-FF is 
> another (I've already uploaded on fix to the archive for a package that was 
> uploaded and built an empty package due to a faulty dh_python2 transition).
> 
> This should probably be clarified.

Your position made sense to me - often desirable, easy to approve based
on debdiff/debc/build-log etc., but worth putting through extra review
at this point since it's relatively easy to produce broken binaries by
accident with such changes.

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Colin Watson                                       [[email protected]]

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