On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:12:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > First of all, Othmar's problem report is about an independant bug, > though it is loosely related to Ethan's wishlist report. > > Secondly, I have been away on personal business and have not been able > to fix all RC (ie, important or above) base-config bugs until this > morning. This includes #117741, which is an independant report of the > same issue Othmar reported. > > Ethan Benson wrote, on the 10th on November: > > since the maintainer of base-config has demonstrated a complete > > unwillingness to fix this bug I am prepared to commit a patch to > > boot-floppies baseconfig.c to ask the user if they wish for .debs to > > be removed or not, if they do not, the relevant code that silently > > removes them will be deleted from the base-config install in /target/ > > > > this is of course not the correct solution, the correct solution is > > for the base-config maintainer to cooperate and fix this, but if he > > refuses to be useful we shall have to fix it another way (unless > > someone wishes to NMU and reNMU when new versions revert the fix.) > > Thirdly, this suggestion both ignores my history of debian package > maintainance and participation in debian-boot (IMHO), and is technically > disgusting, and I'm sure that the rest of the boot floppies team has > better sense than Ethan is showing with these asurd threats. > > Fourthly, I don't killfile coworkers on projects, because I belive that > that can lead to disastrous breakdowns in communications. I may, > however, leave projects in disgust. My disgust level with Ethan is > currently quite high. Threatening to abuse boot-floppies commit > privlidges to put in a disgusting hack. Insinuating that I would > silently ignore NMU's. These are not behaviors I expect to see from a > member of this project. >
As a junior participant, I may have little authority. But I'd like to offer my perception of Ethan: He is hardworking, vitriolic, knowledgeable, subject to wide mood swings, and completely committed to the cause of free software. Ethan? It seems like you've been attempting to calm down the rhetoric lately? -- *----------------------------------------------------------------* | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | | : :' : | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | `. `'` | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `- | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]