Re: slink's dpkg
On Thursday 25 February 1999, at 11 h 55, the keyboard of Santiago Vila
<sanvila@unex.es> wrote:
> Fine. So: since we are unable to fix a grave bug, we release anyway.
> Since when the quality is not the most important thing in Debian?
>
> What do the release manager and the dpkg maintainers think about this?
Santiago, before you ignite another flame war, consider the situation of dpkg:
we have now a CVS tree of dpkg, which matches the current dpkg package. But it
is very recent and not many people worked on it.
Several people expressed interest in modifications of dpkg. Ian Jackson
rebutted them all, saying he was planning a major reorganisation of the code
and that they should not work on the old tree. IMHO, a good idea would be to
CVS-branch right now so that volunteers could fix the main trunk, while Ian
works on the new version.
And, the main thing: dpkg frightens many people. There are not many volunteers
to change it, even for things which seem trivial changes like this one.
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