On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:38:49PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:02:23PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Joel Baker wrote: > > > Does it fail to comply with policy? I fail to see why code forked from a > > > Debian package, core or otherwise, is any less worthy of inclusion that > > > any other forked code - of which we have lots. > > > Forking our own packages makes us look like noncooperative fools. > > Ah -- and stalling unpopular ideas in incoming without even the courtesy > of a straightforward rejection does not? Wasn't Joey making this very point? Where we could have a documented process and accountability, instead we have arbitrary decrees, shrouded in some silly attempt at mystique. It's amateurish. -- G. Branden Robinson | You should try building some of the Debian GNU/Linux | stuff in main that is branden@debian.org | modern...turning on -Wall is like http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | turning on the pain. -- James Troup
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