fix (mostly!) the updates system

[sup] / HACKING

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-To run sup locally, invoke it like this:
+Running Sup locally
+-------------------
+Invoke it like this:
 
 ruby -I lib -w bin/sup
 
+You'll have to install all gems mentioned in the Rakefile (look for the line
+setting p.extra_deps). If you're on a Debian or Debian-based system (e.g.
+Ubuntu), you'll have to make sure you have a complete Ruby installation,
+especially libssl-ruby.
+
+Coding standards
+----------------
+
+- Don't wrap code unless it really benefits from it. The days of
+  80-column displays are long over. But do wrap comments and other
+  text at whatever Emacs meta-Q does.
+- I like poetry mode.
+- Use {} for one-liner blocks and do/end for multi-line blocks.
+