Ole Streicher: > On 19.03.2015 12:53, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > No rules forbid invalid compressed files but dh_strip_nondeterminism > > will try to normalize everything that can be normalized… Just like > > dh_strip will work on all binary objects it can identify. > > I would not argue against that it tries it -- but when it does not > succeed, I do not see a reason why this should result in an error. Why > can't it just silently take the next file?
I guess it could…
I'm still under the impression that valid files are the norm in Debian
packages. If a tool detects that a file is invalid, then it's probably
that something has gone wrong. And if that's the case, failing hard is
the best way to make people notice.
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lu...@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism
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