torsdagen den 10 oktober 2002 18.47 skrev Vincent Danen: > On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 08:04 PM, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > [...] > > >> The point is I don't like to do this. It's fine to patch things for > >> fixes, proper language translations, etc. But adding features like > >> this causes other problems... it will bring a lot of bad publicity for > >> MandrakeSoft because of Theo; he's made many threats in the past and > >> he's neurotic enough to follow through. For instance, if we do > >> something Theo really doesn't like, or that Markus doesn't like, any > >> questions regarding openssh that even faintly mention Mandrake > >> somewhere in the equation, will get blasted by the openssh developers, > >> and they'll be referred here with none too kind words. > >> > >> I'd rather avoid that sort of thing. > > > > Ahh, I didn't think that far, are they really such a*holes? May I ask > > what > > those threats were? > > Let's call them protective. And the threats were basically bad > publicity amongst many other Linux/BSD vendors and communities, big > anti-MandrakeSoft sentiments on the openssh website, that sort of > thing. I don't recall the particulars, but it was enough for me to > remove the offending patches.
Hmm..., that sounds just plain childish to me. My godness... > If you look at the openssh spec, you'll see a note in there about > "authorized patches"... I stick with that 100% (and I put it there). > openssh is one of the things I (we) don't really want or need to fsck > with. > > >> This is something that can be done with an optional build switch so > >> someone can easily rebuild the srpm for themself with the patch > >> applied. It's not something I want to make mainstream unless I know > >> that the openssh authors aren't going to be pricks about it. I prefer > >> to have as few headaches as possible. > > > > Ok. I will fix an conditional switch for this. It would be interesting > > to hear > > what they have to say about this as it's a pretty new feature. As I > > understand it it's as new as of this month. They might not even know > > about > > it? > > I just posted to the dev list about it, so we'll see what comes of it. > Pending the inevitable discussion about it, we'll see what we do with > it. Great! -- Regards // Oden Eriksson - Deserve-IT Networks http://d-srv.com Check the "Modules For Apache2" status page at: http://d-srv.com/modules_for_apache2.html
