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Re: [OT] lazy maintainers



On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:01:17AM -0500, Jared Johnson wrote:
> I don't see what the point is flaming myth over this.  He works hard.
> We don't pay him.  He has not abandoned the package.  Decisions as to
> what versions to upload are his.  There isn't any point discussing
> whether or not kitame should NMU mozilla.  It won't happen.  Doing an
> NMU without the maintainer's consent and without the maintainer being
> MIA is one of the more evil evil evil things a debian developer can do.

refusing to maintain a package, and refusing to let anyone else help
is one of the more evil evil things a debian developer can do.

> Be patient.  For goodness' sake, i'm the galeon maintainer and my
> package is sorely effected by outdated mozilla versions... how is it
> that I am in the minority supporting the current maintainer of mozilla?

and pray tell how patient should we be?  sorry but we are seeing a
trend here, when M18 became obsolete we were told be patient, version
after version after version of mozilla was released and still we
remained at the pathetic M18, and were told `be patient' 

sorry but that is rediculous.  NMU mozilla.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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