Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 17 April 2006 at 22:42, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > | There are a few dozen source packages in the archive that contain a file > | called debian/rules.old. In many cases, this was apparently the backup > | copy during a cdbs conversion or something similar that should have > | been removed. If you appear below, please consider fixing this. > > Sure, but why? Doesn't exactly do harm, does it? > > Dirk (not sub'ed on d-devel so please CC me) > > Any unnecessary cruft is a waste of both mirror space and bandwidth. I know the college I'm going to next year has a 2 gb/month cap on the net. Anything over that, and you pay. (And I currently transfer 30+gb over lan+net...ouch).
HTH, Benjamin
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