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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: yngwin@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:29:26
Message-Id: 20130422191338.6c71482b@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask by Ben de Groot
1 On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:43:22 +0800
2 Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 21 April 2013 22:38, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o>wrote:
5 >
6 > > Denis Dupeyron schrieb:
7 > > > I'm hoping this kind of immature and abrasive behaviours will not
8 > > > propagate (notice the plural here). Yes, when you see a package being
9 > > > actively maintained by somebody else you should absolutely not touch
10 > > > it without talking to that person or team first.
11 > >
12 > > I fail to see any wrong behavior here. A bug report was created and a
13 > > review
14 > > of the changes was requested. The first reaction came after several weeks
15 > > after the bug filing, and the first objection almost two months after the
16 > > change was applied.
17 > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455074
18 > >
19 >
20 > You are missing an important part of the story.
21 > See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455070 where we discuss
22 > the same issue for freetype. (Yes I should have been explicit for fontconfig
23 > too, my bad.)
24 >
25 > I initially reacted within hours, saying that his proposal was in my eyes
26 > not ready yet. I assumed I was clear enough in my refusal, but
27 > apparently Michał didn't understand it that way. He then contacted
28 > the herd a few weeks later, when I was on holiday, and got Luca's permission
29 > to commit, not taking into account he hadn't touched those packages in
30 > many years.
31
32 Just to be clear -- I misunderstood you indeed. I thought you mean that
33 you would agree if the idea is discussed and the discussion results in
34 a general agreement on proceeding with the solution.
35
36 > After I found out, I was a bit pissed off about it, but I was too busy with
37 > work to deal with it (and thought it wise to cool down a bit before taking
38 > action). I then saw bug reports about the freetype multilib ebuild revision
39 > flooding in, and was satisfied after it got masked.
40
41 Those bugs weren't relevant to the final version of the ebuild which
42 you have masked. The only actual bug left open was the one which I
43 forgot to close after fixing it instantly after it was opened.
44
45 So please don't say that I don't take responsibility for my changes.
46
47 --
48 Best regards,
49 Michał Górny

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