what's so, and acknowledgement (Re: laggy lintian)
At 9:34 PM +0000 1998.03.11, James Troup wrote:
>Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:
>
>> Why are you thinking I'm `blaming' you for bugs???
>
>Because you wrote:
>
>> > > (Besides, the problems lintian discovered existed in most
>> > > packages for _months_ (or even years) and lintian reported them a
>> > > few weeks ago already. If you had uploaded the package 2-3 days
>> > > earlier, lintian would have noticed it!)
>
>The implication here is that we are at least partly responsible and we
>should have done something earlier. I object strongly to that
>idea.
As the package maintainer, wouldn't you agree that you're "at least
partly responsible"?
Christian wrote "If you had done X, then Y" -- he didn't say that you
*should* have done X. Nor did he say that you're irresponsible for not
doing X. "Should have" is your own creation.
>[ long explanation of lintian and it's raison d'etre snipped ]
>
>> In summary, please don't take these bug reports to seriously--just
>> handle them as any other bug report. If the problems are already
>> fixed, just close the bug report.
>
>I did; *you* were the one who started this discussion on debian.devel
>and implied that I had a) had critical bugs against by packages open
>for months if not years, b) only ``just'' fixed them, and c) had the
>all-powerful lintian to thank for finding of these bugs. None of
>which is true.
None of which he said.
The months/years figure applies to "most packages", not "your packages".
Et cetera. Re-read the quote and see if you find any of the allegations
you mentioned.
James, it looks to me like you've put in a lot of work (as a volunteer,
no less) for a worthy cause, and someone said something and you feel
invalidated by it. And maybe this isn't the first time in your life,
either. Am I on track here?
So I want you to realize that we recognize and appreciate your
contribution. I may not be aware of the full extent, but I've seen your
name on these lists, and I know you're actively participating -- especially
during this crunch to meet the freeze deadline. I'm clear that I have you
to thank that I have a Mac running Debian.
We're all playing a big game here -- thanks for being on the team.
Josh
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