On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: > Now... I applaud grisu for checking the sponsee's diff line-by-line. > But... does he do the same for his upstream sources? Do you? Do any > other maintainers do that? Actually, some do. I certainly try, and everytime I managed to convince myself it was not necessary to do it, I lost the gamble. > Or, as Rodney King said: can't we all just get along? You're kidding, right? :) > Speaking of rules: where does it say what happens to a regular > maintainer when he/she(;-) uploads "such buggy packages"? If the damage is bad enough, a lot of his Debian maintainer peers will start to look down at him/her as a moron. That's bad enough for most people. And yes, that happens and has happened, and you can notice the fallout easily if you know what to look for. > 40 lashings with a wet noodle? Never seen such a clause... Don't give people any gross ideas, please. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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