On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: > maintainers of other tools. It does seem to me to imply that using > git-buildpackage to do an NMU is risky, because:
Yes, it is – anything other than the standard Debian tool (dpkg-buildpackage) is. > If some user of git-buildpackage (without dgit) tries to do an NMU of > a package containing .gitignore, it will remove the .gitignore. If > the NMUer doesn't notice, then the maintainer certainly will when they They should read the debdiff anyway… but yeah. bye, //mirabilos -- Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh- ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
