Thomas Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007 09:08:31 schrieb Frank Küster: >> Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:08:39PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: >> And a mail like >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350624;msg=142;att=0 >> is not only not-helpful-at-all, it's really discouraging to see a >> discussion ending like this. Well, in that particular case I'd >> understand if you don't answer to the bug, but the reasoning could be >> published elsewhere where Mr. $greps_for_his_name_on_debian_lists cannot >> answer easily. > > I was the bug submitter. I asked Anthony in private mail and he gave a few > reasons. I'm not really convinced by them, but in the end, it's not my > responsability. I just make sure I don't install star on my systems and I'm > done with it. If everyone else (maintainer, ftp-masters, mirror > operators, ...) is happy with it, why should I bother any longer?
You could ask Anthony whether you're allowed to publish his reasons on -legal. That would do the project a great favor. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
