On Wed March 12 2008 10:26:52 Luk Claes wrote: > Ian Jackson wrote: > > It would be flogging a dead horse if we didn't have the core packaging > > software maintained by an obstructive and naive programmer supported > > by someone who is more interested in pretty revision logs than good > > code. > > Confrontation is not going to solve this dispute in your advantage, on > the contrary...
Luk, Please recall that Ian wrote dpkg (replacing Murdock's earlier PERL dpkg). Ian knows dpkg better than any of the current team. If a mini-cabal were senselessly blocking updates to one of my babies because they preferred to spend their time indenting and renaming unused parameters, I would have forked long before six months had elapsed. Ian has shown orders of magnitude more patience than Raphael himself showed in his own dealings with Andreas over developers-reference. Ian appears to have chosen to speak truth to power rather than forking. Do you have a constructive alternative to suggest? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]