Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz):
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:34:23AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 August 2015 06:23:07 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > I'm sitting here at Debconf [3], among literally hundreds of Debian
> > > developers, all of them working hard (many of them in their free
> > > time)
> >
> > I thought all of them did it in their free time.
> >
> > > to give to us this fantastic distribution.
> >
> > I think I have said before, the only possible words are "thank you". It's
> > fantastic what you all do.
> >
> > > I understand your
> > > frustration (I often swear at my computer too, and do even worse
> > > things), but I think the best way forward is to get involved.
> >
> > Some of us just aren't enough use for that, sadly. So all we can do is be
> > grateful. And remember:
> >
> > You can please all of the people some of the time and
> > you can please some of the people all of the time; but
> > you cannot please all of the people all of the time.
> >
> > And I actually think that you cannot please some of the people ever.
>
> To be fair, there are some Debian.readme which make no sense to an end
> user. I've seen some Debian.readme files which talk about about how to
> compile the program. Hello? Isn't Debian a "binary" distribution.
I don't think I can let this stand. Are you confusing README.Debian
files with the README files that may or may not come from upstream?
This machine has 1684 wheezy packages. There are 330 README.Debian
files under /usr/share/doc. 32 contain the string 'compil' (without
case-sensitivity).
Some say they're a COMPILation, many say they have been COMPILed with
certain options, or as modules. Some packages are themselves COMPILers
(eg of lisp, like Steel Bank Common Lisp). But only one mentions
building the package from source: sox. Building various sorts of
plug-ins is often mentioned where appropriate. libgsl0ldbl mentions
building a profiling version if required. (I've discounted the kernel
source, naturally.)
Tools:
find /usr/share/doc -iname readme.debian -print | wc
less +/compil $( find /usr/share/doc -iname readme.debian -exec grep -l -i
'compil' {} \; )
and repeated with 'build' (37 files).
Cheers,
David.
