Hi Charles, Op zaterdag 26 april 2014 14:29:44 schreef Charles Plessy: > Le Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:11:58PM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 02:07:22PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Le Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:41:17AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > > > a generalized approach is needed. > > > > > > > > Multiple versions of a package seems undesirable to me, for the same > > > > reasons as static libraries and embedded code copies are undesirable. > > > > > > Hi Paul and everybody, > > > > > > it would be a great advantage for Debian over the other distributions to > > > have the capacity to install multiple versions concurrently. > > > > No, no it wouldn't. > > > > This is how rpm handles library packages. It's a horror show. > > Hi Steve, > > we have been fighting bitterly over the years, we have different points of > view, and it does not seem like we will be thiking along the same lines > anytime soon. > > When you post on debian-devel or other lists and I disagree, I try to > refrain myself from juping on the keyboard and to instead give time to > others to express their disagreement. If nobody answers, I also take it as > a sign that I probably should not answer as well. > > Could I ask you to do the same for me ?
While I subscribe to your request for Steve to be considerate (heck, I wouldn't have caused GR 2014-002 if I didn't), I don't think asking him not to reply to you is a reasonable request. Steve is a valued technical contributor who through more than a decade of experience has valuable insights to add to many parts of Debian. Asking him to keep that technical advise to him for personal reasons seems like a wrong thing to do. The above-quoted mail could maybe use a bit more explanation as to why Steve thinks of your suggestion as a bad idea. However, that doesn't make him wrong, nor should it imply that he should have refrained from sending it. Thanks, -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26
