On Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 12:25:56PM -1000, Jimen Ching wrote: > > 2. To the users, it's so pitiful that users of a distribution is so > quick to kick out a DEVELOPER just because he disagrees with the leader.
Please notice that Dave Cinege is NOT a debian developer. He does not maintain a package and never did. He does work on a router project that uses debian as a basis, and he did contribute to debian-user, asking questions of other users. But he is not "official" involved in Debian, if there isn't something I don't know. > As a user, I must laugh at some of the criticisms. Spelling mistakes? > Use of initials instead of the full name? These are reasons for ignoring > a complaint? It is scary to find out that this type of group can decide > who becomes a developer for debian and who doesn't. It seems to me that you missed the long thread on debian-devel a while ago, where dave has used uglier things than common four letter words to express his opinion :( I can post you this thread, it is only slightly larger than one megabyte... > I should mention that this is not the first time there was disagreement in > the Debian project. I remember in the beginning that Bruce and RMS also > had a disagreement. Fortunately, that was resolved. I hope this one gets > resolved as well. Unlike others, I do see some problems with the > distribution and improvements can be made. Dave, I don't know what kind I use Debian since a year only, but I think the disagreement between the FSF and Debian is in no way comparable to the rantings of dc. > of contributions you make to debian. But if it is in the dpkg program, > then I hope you can continue to improve it. If you do branch off into > another distribution (great, yet another distribution), then dpkg is the > first program you should improve. As I stated above, dc is not a debian developer, and I doubt that he can improve dpkg. As Ian(?) stated a while ago, everyone who has a small idea of the way dpkg works, disappears from this world :) For dpkg: Bruce is pretty sure that all distributions will use ANSI packages soon. Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .