Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

[Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:53:23PM +0000, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Sun March 9 2008 12:27:59 Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> > I can't understand how a Debian Developer, let alone a Technical
> > Comittee member, can find it acceptable to hijack a package actively
> > maintained because of technical disagreements with its maintainer.
> > Especially if that package is a core package such as dpkg.
> 
> How would you feel if a bunch of less-than-stellar programmers took over
> one of your programs (Ian wrote dpkg) and blocked your changes for six
> months while they reformatted the white space and tried to learn basic
> C programming?

  /usr/share/doc/dpkg/changelog.Debian.gz shows that the dpkg team
closed 148 bugs in the last 6 months. How many did you closed in the
same period ?
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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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