ash splitting and Herbert Xu (Fw: Bug#97310 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#97310: More package-splitting stupidity))
What a brilliant, endearing, technical response to a serious question.
Look at the archives for #97310, especially where Aaron points out that the
bloating to the Packages file actually takes up more room than installing
ash, as opposed to ash-medium, saves.
This is another rude, unsatisfactory response I've had from him in the last
two weeks - are there any other avenues? How would I go about putting these
(especially kernel-*) to the Technical Commitee?
Thanks,
Daniel
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To: Daniel Stone <daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net>
Subject: Bug#97310 acknowledged by developer
(Re: Bug#97310: More package-splitting stupidity)
This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
#97310: More package-splitting stupidity,
which was filed against the ash package.
It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>.
Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is
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97310@bugs.debian.org or me.
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:11:46 +1000
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Subject: Re: Bug#97310: More package-splitting stupidity
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In-Reply-To: <20010513174732.A13143@kabuki.openfridge.net>; from daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:47:32PM +1000
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:47:32PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Package: ash
> Version: 0.3.8-5
> Severity: important
>
> Why is ash split into ash and ash-medium?
>
> Hell, why don't we split vi, and implement, say, searching support, in a
> separate vi package, which is only 10k bigger, but enlarges the Packages
> file and the archives unnecessarily? Yeah! Fun for the whole family. Bring
> the kids! Just add water!
>
> Please reverse this decision, we don't need any more split packages. ash as
> it was is perfectly fine.
Piss off.
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