[HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 16:35:22 UTC 2011


On 08/29/2011 07:46 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>  Otherwise,  make
>> ddate a sub package and don't install it by default.   Solved?
> As an upstream the willingness of distributions to strip out commands
> which I wanted to provide and don't offer a build option to disable
> via sub-packaging will simply encourage me to pack more functionality
> into single binaries that the distributions won't strip.

That argument totally doesn't apply since the thread was started by the
upstream maintainer.   Besides,  upstream cannot and should not try to
control how packaging is done.  Playing dirty tricks isn't the way to
yield cooperation. 

Rahul


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