Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I can give a couple of examples; one is way back when, before I took > over the maintenance of the e2fsprogs package, and was merely the > upstream author. The then maintainer of e2fsprogs attempted to add > support for filesystems > 2GB, but botched the job, and the result was > people with filesystems > 2GB would in some circumstances, get their > filesystems trashed. Of course, those people complained directly to > me, and the reputation of e2fsprogs took a hit as a result. I was > pissed, but I was informed there was nothing I could do; the > maintainer of the package can do whatever they want, upstream wishes > be d*mned, unless you try to go through a rather painful appeal > process via a then-relatively inactive technical committeee.
If it lured you into becoming a DD we should mess up more upstream code :-) Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]