On 08/03/2024 07:38, Rene Engelhard wrote:
Hi,
I did my part for example with this one, that maintainer denied first but fixed later in his next upload as suggested...https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1065349Well, you haven't seen the various discussion how to fix smbclient on IRC...
I started my analysis in the comment of the above mentioned bug report when my suggestion to add "Provides" was politely denied by:
"So Although I'm not a debian developer, I read this control file as:"
Not really. This is an affect of * d/genshlibs: run dh_makeshlibs on libsmbclient0 (Closes: #1065349)
See above.
That is the correct fix (with a similar result of what you suggests), not what you suggested in the first mail, though.
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That is plain wrong. Breaks: is not waiting for anything be there. It's just a lesser version of Conflicts
See above.It still means the two packages cannot be co-installed no? So result is the same as far as the bug was concerned.
You are so determined to prove how dumb I am and how superior you, personally, are, that you do cannot even see these simple facts:
1) There was indeed a problem with this samba package set, that I spend time to report with a kind fix suggestion (from my point of view), 2) I said that a "Provides" was missing in control file, not how it should be added, 3) At the end "Provides:" has indeed been added, probably the "right" way as you suggest but still,
Insulting users is generally not very efficient, even for a non profit organisation. And believe me although on pre-retirement, with more time, and a lot of linux and debian user experience, this does not encourage me to take any package responsibility any time soon if that means dealing with people like you.
That said, I have a lot of respect and sympathy for debian developers in general. I selected this linux distrib because of that more than 20 years ago.
-- eric