Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)
This is why I labeled it as "if it were me". Of course I tend to
take a harder view of whats the programmers responsibilities when releasing
a package than most people. Maybe it has to do with my overbuilt sense of
getting things done right and not being blamed for breaks too frequesntly. :)
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:09:54AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> ahzz@ironsides.terrabox.com (Brian Wolfe) writes:
>
> > Actualy, I believe that the mkisofs maintainer should have seen that a
> > new option was created and notified the maintainers of anything that
> > depended on mkisofs ...
>
> That's pushing it, I think. I've had several experiences as a maintainer
> where something in an upstream package changed that seemed insignificant to
> me, but which broke some other package that depended on mine. These events
> aren't a big deal if everyone is "engaged" and bugs are getting addressed as
> they are reported.
>
> Let's stick to the main problem.
>
> Bdale
>
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