On Vi, 31 dec 10, 13:13:39, Mike Bird wrote: > On Fri December 31 2010 10:51:18 Arthur Machlas wrote: > > As for all the talk of losing years of wisdom and bug squashing and > > what-not, I'm not really sure that's the case, but a debate about the > > worthiness of insserv as a successor to all the Snn Knn links is > > probably better suited to another thread, perhaps one where more dev's > > hang out than here on user. In any event, if you hope to convince > > people of that, I think calling DD's "Script kiddies", especially one > > who just resolved the bug you noted and I reported within about 12 > > hrs, probably won't leave them too open to taking your position > > seriously. > > Nobody has called the Apache2 maintainers "script kiddies". > Most Debian Developers are excellent and dedicated to Debian > rather than their own egos. It is the DD's work in developing > the Snn/Knn values over many years that needs to be protected > from randomization by the script kiddies. > > The script kiddies are those who abused the Debian packaging > system to make sysv-rc REQUIRE the harmful and unnecessary > insserv. I'm sure you are aware that insserv is doing the (re)ordering based on the LSB headers in each initscript. Don't you think your rant is exaggerated? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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