On Fri Jan 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM CET, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > Yes, we expect Debian package maintainers to implement the simple thing.
In a project I'm part of there is this running joke: "You sound like Diederik" It involves kernel stuff and periodically there needs to be a rebase onto a new upstream version, so you just need to check which patches can be dropped, which need to be updated and which need to be rebased and then do run ``fakeroot debian/rules maintainerclean`` and ``make -f debian/rules orig`` till all the patches apply cleanly. And ofc check which kernel config changes need to be applied. You know ... simple stuff. Turns out that in the 2+ years *I* have been doing it I picked up some knowledge, skills and ways to deal with issues that not everyone has. > For a limited while, for a limited subset of packages, we expected > them to do something more complicated, and when that applied, we > sent patches. However this time is over, and packages should do the > simple thing of directly using the path *in* /usr. Ah, great, so you have extensive knowledge and many examples you can point to ... > mumble is probably the last package that can't figure this out one > way or another, and it's getting a bit tiring. Especially when > people are trying to help, but clearly the messages don't come > across. Providing links to commits where such problems were fixed, would be helpful. Providing a link to a package which you consider a fine example of how this should be done properly ... is helpful. A patch would be REALLY helpful. Such a patronizing tone is certainly NOT helping. My 0.02
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