On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 17:40 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Svante Signell dijo [Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:45:13PM +0200]: > > > It's *usually* not what you want to do. There are several cases where > > > different versions of the same program are available in Debian, and I > > > am unfamiliar with the case at hand, but it's usually where a specific > > > older version of a package is depended upon by large amounts of > > > software, and changes in new versions are not compatible. They often > > > bring in maintenance hell issues.
One example is to upload a new release to experimental, not sid! Being there does not automatically make it progress to sid, tesing and stable does it? > > > In this case, you should discuss with the DM about the "whatever > > > reason" you mention, maybe bring it up here (so it gets wider exposure > > > and more informed people get to have a say). You can ultimately ask > > > the Technical Committee, but that's a venue of action very seldom > > > taken (and I think that even "very seldom" might be an overstatement). Well the DM is *non-responsive*, what to do? > > Thank you for your time, > > > > Fortunately, I'm not a hurd porter any longer an whatever you choose to > > do it is not longer my business. Thank you for your attention > > Huh‽ > > Well, the original question I replied to was posted by you... I fail > to understand your answer. There was no mention of any specific > program, architecture, kernel or whatever. Just to clarify, I have been contributing with bug reports and patches for various packages, etc for a long time. I'm not a DM or DD. Regarding DMs the non-responsiveness of *some* of them is frustrating, they don't bother to comment on _any_ of the bug reports. Is that the way a DM is supposed to work? And with the recent discussions on d-devel about hijacking etc it seems that if you are a DM for a package is set in stone *forever*. I really wonder if Debian is for me at all. There are other free software distributions, Ubuntu, Redhat Fedora, Mandriva, etc. I've been contributing there before. And there are even really free software distributions. So why stick to Debian? -- 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/1338534995.5450.136.ca...@hp.my.own.domain
