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Tom Wijsman posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:11:48 +0100 as excerpted: |
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[Seven J. Long wrote...] |
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>> There's plenty of ways to stay on the bleeding-edge; throwing out the |
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>> baby with the bathwater will only tip you over it, and bork the distro |
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>> for the rest of us, and everyone down the line. |
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> Why do we have the baby in the first place? |
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IOW, it's not throwing the "baby" out with the bathwater any longer, as |
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the "baby" long ago died of old age and is now a decaying corpse; there's |
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no "baby" to throw out any longer! |
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Going with the analogy, that package has become an adult, grown old, got |
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sick, died, and now there are rather obvious and smelly signs of decay! |
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The neighbors complained (filed bugs) about the smell and when the |
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authorities investigated they found the decaying body (the bugs are |
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blocked pending removal of a long dead and should be gone version)! |
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Yet some slow arch is insisting the corpse is not only alive and well, |
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but that it's still married to it, and the people coming to try and take |
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it away to the morgue aka VCS archives as part of the becoming-a-biohazard |
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cleanup (removing the package, thus unblocking those blocked bugs) are |
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somehow abusing their authority! |
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Until the body becomes a biohazard (long dead package presence blocking |
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bug resolution), it's arguably the business of the deluded husband still |
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refusing to believe the death of his wife, but once it becomes a biohazard |
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the rest of the community is now threatened as well and something must be |
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done, thus this thread. |
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[OK, the analogy triggered my imagination and I went with it...] |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |