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Re: stop the "manage with debconf" madness



On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:15:46 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> said: 

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:21:59AM +0100, Matt Ryan wrote:
>> > Perhaps it would, if it had not come on the tails of a string of
>> unwarranted
>> > insults against other developers (most of whom seem to agree with
>> > my ideas on the technical subject under discussion).
>>
>> The closest I got to an insult was accusing Manoj of having a prune
>> up his rear.

> ...and telling Ben Collins to "take a Valium" after what appeared to
> be a pretty even-handed message

	And telling him, repeatedly, that he had his foot in his mouth.

> ...calling Joey Hess "jumped up" and being generally rude in
> response to a justifiably exasperated message about a long-standing
> problem, which was accompanied by a standing offer to assist any
> developer with interfacing with debconf

> ...and stating that you'll "use debconf how [you] please and if
> that's against the 'pure' view of others [...] then its [sic] just
> hard luck".

> The first two being insulting to the developers involved, and the
> third being insulting to the spirit of cooperation and consensus
> that the project as a whole depends on.

	manoj

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