This particular statement was taken out of context: On Friday, February 21, 2014 20:48:46 Georgy Demidov wrote: [...] > Linus Torvalds about Lennart Poettering: “Two-faced lying weasel” would be > the most polite thing I could say. But it almost certainly will involve a > lot of cursing.
When Linus wrote this (in Oct 2012), it was specifically about a bug in udev concerning deadlocking if moudule_init() did a request_firmware() which apparently broke in udev182. [1] Linus was really pissed off because this issue had dragged on for months and Kay had apparently ignored patches to fix it [2]. I don't personally think this was because of malice or conspiracy -- it's far more likely to be some kind of technical misunderstanding or a design issue than anything else. [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/303 [2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/484 -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org