On 1/1/21 8:05 AM, Haochen Tong wrote:
I never denied that -nightly was a bad choice, but pipewire-gstreamer-
git doesn't look good either. It sounds like gstreamer is specifically
enabled (in contrast to the official package) for some reason.

It sounds *to me* like gstreamer is specifically enabled (in contrast to "pipewire-git") for some reason.

i.e. the point of contrast is pipewire-git, not pipewire, due to pipewire-gstreamer-git minus the substring "-gstreamer" being the former, not the latter.

Fine, I now understand that "first come first use" always have higher
priority. I am willing to accept this, but is it written somewhere? If
not, I hope you can make it clear in the future.

Given a dispute where both sides have subjective arguments, which other tiebreaker do you propose?

I admit it isn't obvious from just the package name, but I am curious,
what kind of privileged information do you need to acquire when you can
just look at the PKGBUILD to find the difference?

The privileged information is someone telling me directly, and the whole point of my statement was that I'm claiming you can't "just look" because it's too easy to *over*look.

Your basic approach here seems to be "I think the other maintainer
sucks
at maintaining, therefore I can do whatever I feel like and if anyone
is
confused, it's the other maintainer's fault for sucking at being a
maintainer".


That was never the intention. I am simply not satisfied with any
possible workarounds we have for now, that's why I am trying to discuss
for a better solution. If that looks bad to you then I feel sorry.

The only thing you're convincing me of, here, is that maybe I
shouldn't
trust you in the future, period. Is your insistence that rules don't
apply to you, indicative of some deep-seated desire to experience an
account suspension? (Please say "no"... and please make your actions
say
"no" too...)

Well, now you would like to assume that I intend to be malicious and
you are prepared to apply restrictive measure, just because I have some
opinions you don't agree with in some email exchanges? Or is my
uploading of pipewire-nightly such an unforgivable violation of some
rule that must be corrected with an account ban?

To save both of us some trouble I will now step out of this as you
wish.

Hmm, well, it looked to me like post hoc rationalization of your original upload with a refusal to acknowledge it as problematic. Uploading the package may have been wrong, but mistakes can be pardoned as long as they're not repeated.

I don't plan on banning you at all!

I'm merely decidedly unsure, from your replies, whether you acknowledge it as, indeed, being a problem. Therefore I was concerned that in the future, if you ever get into a debate with a maintainer over another package about the right options to use, you might do the same "use a different VCS/devel suffix to re-upload the package in order to circumvent the upload restrictions, without properly namespacing it using a distinctive keyword" thing.

--
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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