Re: [Debconf-discuss] OpenPGP primary key expirations
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 13:18:58 Ana Guerrero wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 07:18:39PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> > On Monday 16 August 2010 16:11:52 Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> > > Chris Knadle <chris-debian@coredump.us> writes:
> > >
> > > Hi, Chris! I'm staying out of the policy discussion, but have some
> > > technical comments on photo IDs.
> > >
> > > > I don't agree with the latter reason, as I think this should be a
> > > > personal choice and I don't think PhotoIDs are "wrong", and I'm
> > > > annoyed that such a choice is being made for me by the author of the
> > > > tool rather than simply giving a warning.
> > >
> > > Agreed, though the great thing about free software is that you don't
> > > have to be limited by the original author's vision. ;-)
> >
> > I could theoretically fix the code to change it the way I like for /me/,
> > but if I want to do this for others that gets a bit more complicated. I
> > suppose I could discuss this with the Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers for
> > starters, which is who is listed as maintaining the kleopatra package.
>
> No, you should discuss this better at upstream :) Get the changes there and
> about 6 months later in the worst case, you have it in Debian.
Ah. So... that means discussing it with the author. What was that about not
being limited by the original author's vision again? ;-)
But I thank you for your answer -- I'll try to discuss it with upstream.
-- Chris
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