On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:17:18 +0200, Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> wrote: >I mean, adduser isn't going to be somewhat-obsolete-for-some-usecases >(not all of them!) because somebody decided that Marc is a horrible >human being and/or his work is and has been completely useless, quite >the opposite in fact, but because of externals that prima facie have >nothing to do with you personally *or* the quality of your work.
It is still incredibly frustrating. I mean, I KNOW that the declarative approach is superior for packages, but someone needs to keep adduser usable for the three digit number of packages that are sill using it. And it's different to see the package slowly fade out but to get it pulled away just because some other maintainer gets his pet feature implemented and rolled out. This has happened to me already once when volatile.debian.net went official and ftpmaster decided that a package that I spent significant time on wouldn't fit on the org label any more. In both cases, it is incredibly frustrating to not having known a year earlier. In the adduser case this is especially bad because I had two volunteers, newcomers to Debian, contributing to adduser in the last two years whose work could have made more impact in other parts of Debian. So, it's not only my work going down the drain, but theirs as well. Greetings Marc -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402
