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From: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 16:29:35
Message-Id: e21aa3ab-51ac-52d8-290e-b90d38173421@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default by Mike Gilbert
1 On 2021-01-08 17:03, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > I strongly object to you pushing this patch as-is. There have been
3 > plenty of non-technical objections, including from the eclass
4 > maintainer.
5
6 The eclass maintainer has disqualified himself going into a technical
7 debate with saying
8
9 > So, over my dead commit access.
10
11 in his first posting.
12
13
14 This is a technical mailing list. Currently, acct-* stuff is breaking
15 stuff. Nobody has challenged this yet.
16
17 Now I proposed a way how to unbreak stuff.
18
19 Please tell me why we should keep broken stuff for non-technical reason
20 and cause harm for those who are affected?
21
22 It's not like we cannot address the other stuff later. It's about
23 getting the fix down to users who are currently affected by this. So why
24 take hostage when some user(s) ignore the problem for more than a year
25 and show that they are not interested in collaboration to find a
26 solution for a technical problem they created despite warnings before
27 this went live?
28
29 Of course, if you are not affected by this problem it is very easy to
30 relax and sit back. You have all the time in the world... but when you
31 are affected by this at large scale it is not that funny anymore.
32
33
34 --
35 Regards,
36 Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer
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