On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 09:08:03AM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Le 27/08/2015 05:33, Michael Gilbert a écrit : > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> So quite frankly, the fact that Debian people now attack Dirk, who has > >> been bending over backwards over these kinds of stupidities, is not a > >> big surprise. I think it's in the Debian DNA to care more about rules > >> than about technical sanity. The whole "this is the only right way to > >> do licensing" thing extends to "this is the only correct waty to do > >> packaging". > >> > >> It's sad to see. > > Perhaps it isn't clear external to the project, but participation in > > the Debian BTS does not automatically make one a Debian person, which > > not a defined status. > > > > The maintainer of the subsurface package, an official Debian status, > > removed the package on request, so in many ways, problem happily > > solved? > > > Even if I am not the initial packager of subsurface, I was the > maintainer for the past > few years. > I think we worked great with Dirk. He uplifted some of my patches > without any issue, > always been friendly and quick to answer. He was a great upstream. We > quickly discussed > at the New Orleans during Linux Plumber about this packaging.
Thanks, Sylvestre, I really appreciate you saying that. Asking Debian to drop Subsurface wasn't an easy decision to make. But I still believe it's the right decision at this point. Maybe in a little while, once libgit2 has made it into Debian we can revisit the question if a full-featured Subsurface can be shipped with Debian. Right now I think the solution that we have is the best we can do. Thanks for all your work on Subsurface. /D
