Bug#573745: ping
Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> writes:
> Wow. Almost nobody uses python-central because python-support has a
> friendly maintainer that helps people asking questions. Reversing the
> situation seems quite biaised. For example, python-central does not
> clean up old pyc files and there are numerous bugs report about this:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518940
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466244
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479852
Steve's point was not in support of python-central, but rather in support
of the new helper process. I'm inclined to agree that, given the people
working on the new helper system, resolution of this bug one way or the
other is unlikely to derail it, but I think you're not seeing his point
and reacting to something else.
> If you look at bug reports on python-support, you will notice that
> Josselin is handling most of the bugs reported in a sane way. We did
> use python-support because we get answers and fixes for our problems.
And all that happened without replacing the maintainer of Python. It
didn't happen anywhere nearly as smoothly as it could, but I think the
point is that Matthias is not blocking forward progress here, so changing
maintainers doesn't seem to be required to continue to make progress.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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