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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: Fwd: [Cooker] Mandriva kmail sucks (buggy mandriva patch)
From:       Per =?iso-8859-15?q?=D8yvind_Karlsen?= <pkarlsen () mandriva ! com>
Date:       2006-05-10 16:15:34
Message-ID: 200605101815.34483.pkarlsen () mandriva ! com
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Onsdag 10 mai 2006 17:56, skrev Laurent Montel:
> On Wednesday 10 May 2006 17:33, Michael Scherer wrote:
> > Le Mercredi 10 Mai 2006 17:11, Laurent Montel a écrit :
> > > On Wednesday 10 May 2006 16:24, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
> > > > Still no reply, retrying...
> > >
> > > Read spec file before to write email
> > > patch10 is never apply into kdepim.
> > > Regards.
> >
> > Then why do you keep it in the source rpm ?
> >
> > rpmlint has a warning to avoid this, as keeping not applied patchs :
> > - is a waste of disk space and bandwidth, of cpu and upload processing
> > time
>
> 1772 Dec 13 17:00 kdepim-3.2-move-mail.patch
> 1.7ko !
> for example your split of avahi to avahi-qt4 which is not used size is:
> 53935 May  6 15:21 /RPMS/libavahi-qt4_1-devel-0.6.10-1mdk.i586.rpm
> 10737 May  6 15:21 /RPMS/libavahi-qt4_1-0.6.10-1mdk.i586.rpm
>
nice way of avoiding the subject with absolutely irrelevant bs..
> > - lead to complexity and unreadability in spec files, and so render them
> > less maintenable
> > - lead to this kind of problem when trying to understand what is going on
> > and when people try to help.
>
> It's easy: read %patch.... you know which patchs is apply.
Could you please enlighten us why on earth you rather blindly ignore rpmlint 
and any other policies that everyone else use, in stead of making nonsense?

Come on, everyone else cares for their spec files and package policies, why 
aren't you?
-- 
Regards,
Per Øyvind Karlsen
Mandrakesoft becomes Mandriva

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