Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?
>>"Josip" == Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> writes:
>> If the maintainer does not know C/C++, then they really have
>> no business packaging a C/C++ programme. Debian is supposed to be
>> more than a repository of everything out there (or a cool email
>> address). It is also supposed to be about quality. If you do not
>> understand the language your package is written in, it is highly
>> unlikely your stewardship of that package is goging to be anything
>> but mediocre.
Josip> You're right in the general case, but I believe Christian was
Josip> referring to being unable to backport a security patch in
Josip> mysql. Just "knowing" a language wouldn't quite be sufficient
Josip> to be able to do that. He did the right thing by asking for
Josip> help -- that's hell of a lot better than ignoring the problem
Josip> or doing the job lousy. (Both of which aren't unheard of,
Josip> unfortunately.)
Let me reiterate that I was in no way implying that debian
developers are in dire need of having god hood conferred on them, and
they are by no means omniscient, and thus indeed need help in solving
problems from time to time.
I was merely commenting that familiarity with the language
your package be written in be a minimal requirement, since with out
that you may not even be able to evaluate the help you get (not to
mention making it more, umm, tiresome, for people to help you).
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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