maintaining packaging scripts doesn't magically give you a deep understanding of the application you're packaging, and applying mechanical fixes that you think are good is a good way to cause problems to downstream users
you remember the Debian/OpenSSL fiasco, right? I think I had a key or two affected by that
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2024-09-01 09:35:08
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