Re: Second take at DEP17 - consensus call on /usr-merge matters
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 06:31, Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 6/30/23 02:32, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>
> >> If the dpkg maintainer were to merge aliasing support, I haven't seen
> >> anyone objecting strong enough to try and override that maintainer
> >> action for example.
>
> Correct. The proponents of the "work around dpkg" approach quite often
> insinuate that it would be impossible to get changes merged for "social
> reasons", but there is no opposition from either camp to changing dpkg.
And yet, ~10 years on and not only there are zero actual results to
show for it, but every single time the topic is brought up on the dpkg
mailing list, the maintainer's answer is some variation of "no, get
lost". Of course it's your time, so you are entitled to use it as you
see fit.
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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