On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 09:33 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
On 15. 08. 19 7:39, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Of course you might consider this special case, but apparently all the
> other people who speak up had different special cases.
"special cases aren't special enough to break the rules"
I still think that if somebody would need to keep package unretired for 1.5+
years, they have options:
- let it be retired, unretire, retag (as in: "I don't give a damn")
- request an exception with proper reasons (as in: "I have proper reasons")
Just being able to let the package rot for 3+ releases is not good enough reason
IMHO.
Or just fix it so it damn well builds. Even if *you* don't need to use
it. I mean, is it so hard? I get *itchy* if I have an FTBFS bug on one
of my packages for three days. I can't imagine letting one sit there
for six months!
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