On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > But both are wrong, too: it's always the job of both. It's not supposed > to be a struggle between maintainers and porters, but everyone in > Debian against bugs and shortcomings of our system. Also, neither group > is homogenous, and it's silly to require everyone to be an expert on > debugging tricky portability problems. So the best approach is, I think, > to do your best and ask for help when needed. And avoid framing discussions > in ways that create unnecessary antagonism between groups of people.
Here here! Do your best and when the free software community (upstream, Debian porters/maintainers and other distro maintainers/porters) is unable to solve portability issues you can always give up via an "RM: foo on $arch" bug. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6htylodmkwwa7hbpjst4ig_pjam-gickxln0mmib0g...@mail.gmail.com
