On 18 April 2006 at 01:23, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > On 17 April 2006 at 22:42, Peter Eisentraut wrote: | > | There are a few dozen source packages in the archive that contain a file | > | called debian/rules.old. In many cases, this was apparently the backup | > | copy during a cdbs conversion or something similar that should have | > | been removed. If you appear below, please consider fixing this. | > | > Sure, but why? Doesn't exactly do harm, does it? | > | > Dirk (not sub'ed on d-devel so please CC me) | > | > | Any unnecessary cruft is a waste of both mirror space and bandwidth. I | know the college I'm going to next year has a 2 gb/month cap on the net. | Anything over that, and you pay. (And I currently transfer 30+gb over | lan+net...ouch).
A debian/rules file is almost surely under 5k __before compression__, so while you may have identified a valid restriction at your campus, this has nothing to do with it. Regards, Dirk -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]