[bzr-explorer] Please test latest changes in bzr-explorer trunk
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Tue May 10 09:10:14 UTC 2011
Ben Finney writes:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
>
> > Ben Finney writes:
> >
> > > But you do, presumably, have the packages around.
> >
> > I have no idea why you would presume such a thing.
>
> Because Alexander referred to the packagers hiding their activities in
> deep dark places, it seemed that the alternatives were either that
> Alexander was being disingenuous, being lazy, or that he had already
> looked everywhere obvious for information about the packages in which he
> is interested.
"Ah, but there was a fourth possibility you had not even counted
upon." It was a *joke* (quite possibly more aimed at Alexander
himself than any other target).
> > There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of distributions; upstream is not
> > going to keep track of them all.
>
> Restrict the domain of discussion to only those packages in which
> Alexander is interested, of course.
All of the ones that include qbzr, including those he never heard of,
if you take his phrasing at all seriously. At least, that's how I
would intend it if I wrote the same kind of thing regarding packaging
of XEmacs.
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