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Re: /svn/athena r25520 - trunk/athena/lib/firefox-extension/debian

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Thu May 31 02:25:46 2012

Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 02:25:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>, source-commits@MIT.EDU
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On Wed, 30 May 2012, Jonathan Reed wrote:

> This is moot, since we now undivert the files the Right(tm) way.  I

Right, that's why I didn't point out the particular instances already. :)

> suspect the copypasta was a literal copy+paste from c-p-d 
> 4.whatever-was-current-when-it-was-first-written, but the two have now 
> diverged.

Hmm, okay.  I think Anders has fixed a few quoting nits since then.

>
> I think I still want cpd-maintscript-helper, but the only use cases I 
> can think of for it are because we screwed up in the first place.  "So 
> maybe it's easier to simply not screw up."  Though having a utility or 
> some canonical code snippets to deal with "the upstream conffile we 
> divert got renamed" might be clever.

It might.  Mumble copious free time mumble.


Thanks again for putting lots of work into pulling up precise the past 
couple weeks.

-Ben

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