Re: Good news re: man-db
Christopher C Chimelis <chris@beezer.med.miami.edu> writes:
[ Sorry for the time warped reply ]
> > Thank about what happens if you just move, e.g. ncurses to libc6
> > without providing a libc5-based ncurses to go with it... [...]
>
> I know this...I was just being silly (hence the :P). Sorry if I
> didn't make that clear.
No, my fault, I should have read it better.
> > if the alpha port (and any other architectures which don't need
> > libc5) had pointed out a little earlier that they didn't want or
> > need the libc5 stuff, things might not be such a mess now.
>
> I know, we should've spoken up, but in all fairness, there are quite
> a few non-maintainer-status people working on this project right
> now. At least in my case, I didn't feel really "qualified" to make
> such a suggestion to established maintainers when I was just getting
> up to speed as far as package maintenance.
IMHO, you should speak up. The level of "qualification" necessary to
become a maintainer these days has dropped dramatically thanks to
debmake and friends, and more often than not non-i386 maintainers are
a lot more clueful than ``real'' developers.
And in any event, I've found the vast majority of maintainers rarely
think about any other architecture than their own; if you see
something that will adversely affect your architecture, shout and
shout loud.
--
James
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