Re: long term goals of debian membership
On 5 Dec 2000, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> Heheheh. It's so good to hear these stories from some of you newer
> people.
>
> I remember when I first started as a Debian developer. We used to have
> to encode our packages as pictograms on stone tablets, and send them
> by ox cart through the mountains and down to the river, where they
> were then transferred to woven-reed rafts and floated downstream to
> the Nile delta.
>
> I became maintainer for my first package by killing the previous owner
> with a flint knife in hand-to-hand combat.
>
I remember those days. Especially the great Alpha Draconis to Polaris
migration. That broke a lot of dependencies.
--
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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