On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 08:18:10PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:
> Hi Hendrick,
>
> 1] As has happened in the past, I'm not sure I understand what you
> wrote.
>
> 2] Your comment about the issue being about a ''devuan package' did
> send me into a panic, so I double-checked, and it seems that the
> package is the unmodified debian 'dnscrypt-proxy_1.9.4-1_amd64.deb'
> downloaded from a debian repository, as forwarded by the devuan
> server. Just in case I have this wrong somehow, because it is
> important, what led you to think it was a package modified by devuan,
> and how did you check?

Because of the lines

> -- System Information:
> Distributor ID:       Devuan
> Description:  Devuan GNU/Linux 1.0 (jessie)

in the Debian bug report.

Of course this didn't prove it was a Devuan package, but it may be one
of the things that made a Debainista dismiss it. They'd be interested
if a Debian package failed to work on Debian system, but not if it
failed on a Devuan system, as they might suspect.

-- hendrik
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