On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:22:17AM +0200, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote: > actually I am not presenting any argument.
Your arguing actually was: ... you can start by studying how the software is packaged and of course you are welcome to send in patches. as a response to a patch which was provided inside #539749. I'd call this weak arguing (at best). > AT> I admit I'm a bit sick of people who force me to apply patches > AT> myself and build local packages if I want to use recent high popcon > AT> software like Emacs 23 who are not even be able to say sorry for not > AT> beeing active to potential helpers. > > It is not my intent to force people. If you feel so inclined, please do > a NMU. The problem does not qualify for a NMU and you leave potential helpers completely unclear about your intentions. So I'm forced to find a private solution if I do not want to conflict to our social standards. > I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean about "being active to > potential helpers". Well, if I would be inactive and realise that I'm a blocker of a package I would say sorry to my fellow developers for doing so and enable them to change the status. > AT> BTW, it's no shame to group maintain a package it's a way to face > AT> real live if you are busy with other stuff. > > The package is comaintained, and qualified people are always welcome > (Frank Küster being the most prominent, looking to past history). debian/control says: Maintainer: Davide G. M. Salvetti <sa...@debian.org> Uploaders: OHURA Makoto <oh...@debian.org> but the changelog has not a single upload of OHURA Makoto <oh...@debian.org>. So what exactly are you talking about? A good example for a team maintenance is the Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-ma...@lists.debian.org> Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de Klarmachen zum Ändern! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org