Re: Woody upgrading problems, LILO and debconf
On Monday 21 May 2001 16:15, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I know as much about John Gault as I know about Thomas Bushnell, at least
> in the areas of interest here, and I don't see any reason to be this rude
> to a regular user of our product just because he always has an opinion.
No-one is being rude to John for always having an opinion. People are being
rude to him because he is ALWAYS rude.
Do a web search and try and find some examples of him being polite.
> Personally my "birthday wish" would be that all you ego bound guys would
> get a clue and stop interpreting criticism of a decision you made as being
> a personal affront.
Who has been doing that?
I don't take criticism of my decisions as an affront. I take slanderous
comments about me and my work as an affront.
> A. Why, on an upgrade, should LILO do anything more complex than replace
> the binary files it contains? The system is running, so the boot process
> is most likely the one the administrator wishes to keep.
I believe that the current version addresses this issue. If you have
problems with the current version in unstable then please report them to me
via private email or the BTS and they will be fixed ASAP.
> Look; I reported a problem I had. Others agreed that they had these
> problems too.
>
> OK, you have two possible replies. 1: That problem is fixed in the xxx
> release; or 2: Thanks for the report, could you submit a bug report
> against this issue, so I don't forget to fix it. (You can obvioulsy also
> just ignor it and hope it goes away...)
I have been using options 1 and 2 for replying to all bug reports, and I
believe that I have fully addressed all issues you raised multiple times!
> A reply to a third, supporting, party saying: 'Until you identify yourself
> you can just fuck off', is much more useless than anything JG has ever
> said on these lists.
I have never said that. What I do say is that anyone who is totally
unwilling to do anything positive should fuck off to save wasting the time of
people who are willing to do something. JG does nothing but flame people,
both here and in other lists. JG is not a supporting party.
Some people are making an issue about the anonymity thing. That would not
happen if JG was being in any way productive. There are many other people on
this list who refuse to provide their identity but don't get the same
reaction.
Now please read my messages before replying again. I see little evidence
that you are actually reading my messages.
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