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Packaging and patching

Packaging and patching

Posted Aug 28, 2009 0:12 UTC (Fri) by rlk (guest, #47505)
In reply to: Packaging and patching by branden
Parent article: On properly packaging perl

That was my recollection about what happened; thank you for correcting the details.

In the Gutenprint example, nobody ever attempted to contact us (we have a development mailing list that's noted on our web site that's open subscription), even to notify us that they were making the change in question. We were left to find out about it from complaints from unhappy users.


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