Re: [Chicken-users] Don't modify other people's eggs

[Alex Shinn]

"felix winkelmann" <address@hidden> writes:

> I absolutely agree. Apart from obvious breakage (syntax
> errors, etc.), extensions should be solely under the
> control of the author (I admit that I'm often too eager to
> "fix" things. Sometimes eggs that are dependencies of
> other extensions one is maintaining break, in these cases
> it's often quite difficult to sit still).

The Debian project has to coordinate thousands of developers
with busy schedules, so they have developed a set of
guidelines of when and how to modify a package maintained by
someone else:

  http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu

-- 
Alex