Re: bastardizing packages or stepping down

2015-03-30 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi. I'm sorry it has taken a while to write back to you. I asked how the TC could help and was confused when I read your message. I provided a couple of options how we might be able to help and you neither selected one of my options nor provided your own. So, I wasn't sure what you were looki

Re: bastardizing packages or stepping down

2015-03-10 Thread Michael Tokarev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 06.03.2015 15:02, Sam Hartman wrote: [] > So, you're involving the TC because you're hoping to better understand why > your unblock was not approved? > > How are you hoping the TC can help? Here are some options I see: > > * Some folks on the TC ar

Re: bastardizing packages or stepping down

2015-03-06 Thread Sam Hartman
>However, I still really want to understand that unknown reason >why all this happened, why it is so difficult to accept a >working package than to do more bastardizing work, why it is >smart to reject good stuff and to do absolutely unnecessary work >(double work with maintaining 2 version and a

Re: bastardizing packages or stepping down

2015-03-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 01:38:29PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > But once I > uploaded a next release of busybox to the archive, it was rebuilt > using older, unfixed glibc, and the original problem reappeared. I didn't see any request to make sure the chroots are updated. Not having read the wh

Re: bastardizing packages or stepping down

2015-03-05 Thread Michael Tokarev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 05.03.2015 15:08, Sam Hartman wrote: >> "Adam" == Adam D Barratt writes: > > Adam> Hi, Making no comment on the remainder of the mail: > > Adam> On 2015-03-05 10:38, Michael Tokarev wrote: >>> And since I can't do my work, I'm stepping down from

Re: bastardizing packages or stepping down

2015-03-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Bah, so much for a quick response that I thought was simple and uncontroversial. :-) On 2015-03-05 12:08, Sam Hartman wrote: Adam, let's assume for the moment I've got that right. I'm trying to connect with the frustration I'd feel if I were told that I didn't even have the power to dist

Re: bastardizing packages or stepping down

2015-03-05 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Adam" == Adam D Barratt writes: Adam> Hi, Making no comment on the remainder of the mail: Adam> On 2015-03-05 10:38, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> And since I can't do my work, I'm stepping down from being >> busybox maintainer, and am kindly asking the release team to >>

Re: bastardizing packages or stepping down

2015-03-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Making no comment on the remainder of the mail: On 2015-03-05 10:38, Michael Tokarev wrote: And since I can't do my work, I'm stepping down from being busybox maintainer, and am kindly asking the release team to remove my name from debian/control file in busybox, so that people don't blame

bastardizing packages or stepping down

2015-03-05 Thread Michael Tokarev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. I didn't really want to write this email, but it looks I now have to, even if, for reasons which whill be shown below, don't expect any good news from this. Trying to make the story short. For quite some time we had a bug in glibc in jessie w