[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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