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Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package

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From	Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
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Subject	Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package
Date	Tue, 07 Jun 2022 17:10:01 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 03:59:22PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > As far as I understand it, this file is used by the author of the 
> > > program, not end users. I don't understand it well, though, because I 
> > > haven't put much time into researching what versioneer even does.
> > > If my hunch is correct, I may be able to just remove the file from the 
> > > source altogether, but I haven't tried that yet.
> > 
> > Well, it's used by the program to show the version info, so it's
> > *eventually* used by users for sure.
> > 
> > I think just removing the file is a good first guess.
> 
> Removing the file is a bad idea!  Replacing it with the PyPI version
> (through debian/patches) is a much better approach.  (And possibly
> excluding the file in debian/copyright as well.)

Ah, scrap my comment - listen to Timo instead!

Best wishes,

   Julian

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Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Ben Westover <kwestover.kw@gmail.com> - 2022-06-07 02:10 +0200
  Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Ben Westover <kwestover.kw@gmail.com> - 2022-06-07 03:20 +0200
    Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2022-06-07 04:30 +0200
      Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Ben Westover <kwestover.kw@gmail.com> - 2022-06-07 04:50 +0200
        Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2022-06-07 08:20 +0200
        Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2022-06-07 08:20 +0200
          Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2022-06-07 15:50 +0200
            Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2022-06-07 16:50 +0200
              Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2022-06-07 17:00 +0200
                Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Ben Westover <kwestover.kw@gmail.com> - 2022-06-08 00:50 +0200
                Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2022-06-08 15:30 +0200
              Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2022-06-07 17:00 +0200
        Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2022-06-07 15:50 +0200
          Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2022-06-07 17:00 +0200
            Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2022-06-07 17:10 +0200
        Versioneer [was Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package] Timo Röhling <roehling@debian.org> - 2022-06-07 16:30 +0200
          Re: Versioneer [was Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package] Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2022-06-08 03:30 +0200

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