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>>>>> On Sat, 07 Mar 2020, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Surely, you can claim we could just drop them to maintainer-needed. |
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> What problem does that solve? The package would still miss 3.7 support. |
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> Users will still suffer when we switch the default (if they have any |
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> users, that is). We would still have to last rite them when 3.6 is |
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> gone. What's the gain? |
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> Right, let's talk about m-needed. Over 2000 packages already and still |
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> growing. What message does *that* send to the users? |
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Sorry, but where have I suggested to drop these packages to m-n? |
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> How about the following message: the difference between Gentoo |
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> and Debian stable is that Gentoo doesn't have the 'b'. |
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> Finally, what message does it send to our users when developers keep |
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> picking up fights like this? You seem to disagree with my work |
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> on Gentoo, and the only solution you can come up is publicly shaming me? |
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> This isn't 'let's discuss a better solution' kind of mail, this is |
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> 'justify yourself before me, you puny developer, how dare you do things |
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> I don't like'. |
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This is neither a fight nor a personal issue. Also, please don't put |
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words in my mouth that I haven't said and never intended to say. |
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Ulrich |
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