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Re: Quarteryearly reminder (ftpmaster delaying installation)



>> "MEM" == Marcelo E Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org> writes:

>> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
>> Unfortunately transparency requires having the time and desire to deal
>> with the mindless flamage that always results...

>  That's fair.  I sympathize with the argument "I don't have time to do
>  this right now and I won't do something that will later require more
>  time from me which could be better spent doing this and that".  But
>  then again, ftpmaster should also sympathize with the maintainer who
>  spent time packaging something.  If ftpmaster has a problem with a new
>  package, then say so: "That license doesn't look free to me".  Ignoring
>  enquiries made after a reasonable ammount of time is wasting both
>  ftpmaster's time and the maintianer's.

>  I won't go digging up URLs, there's plenty of people who do that
>  already.

For example me...

I've 3 packages (librte0.4, librte-dev, mp1e) in the queue since
september 2001, and I never received any reply from ftpmaster why those
packages aren't installed.

Christian


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