-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 January 2002 22:50, Kamil Kisiel wrote: > After reading this thread in full, I too understand Ivan's frustration with > the situation that has arisen.. > > Ivan has put a lot of effort n to packaging KDE on Debian, and I think that > many people (including myself) don't fully understand and respect the scope > of his work. Judging from the number of packages orphaned yesterday, it was > definitely no small task. > > While I have not talked to Ivan very much, the few conversations we had in > #debian-kde and on this mailing list were very friendly, and he was always > helpful. Myself and many others have really enjoyed the frequent updates to > the KDE packages in Sid and our sincerest thanks goes out to Ivan. I know > that I am not just speaking for myself when I say that we will be sorry to > see you go. Thank you for your hard work. >
I think Kamil put this quite well. Ivan's contributed a lot of volunteer time for this task and it's not nice to see it turn this way. For one thing however, KDE developers are a bunch of very friendly coders (yes, we are, eheh) and I'll make sure we continue debian package maintenance within the KDE community. I fix build problems and contribute to debian packaging of a few proggies (kdevelop and I did the gideon packaging) occasionally besides coding. There are also several other KDE developers who are using debian systems for coding. If Ivan is still using KDE we could continue working on KDE CVS together. So that whoever the build guy is in debian, he can just wrap and go. What matters is that the stuff works for you people. Thanks, - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8N5UkfAeuFodNU5wRAmaZAKCTB4I7Ky3kTOxL34pKpCswkHZ+VgCeJgi2 sdFH+R2Sra3akoJsjvUy65E= =0GsQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----