Re: Proposal for removal of mICQ package
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
[...]
>>>>>> In article <[🔎] 20030214094725.GB1208@krikkit.ukeer.de>, Rico -mc- Gloeckner <debian@ukeer.de> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:54:44AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>> Still, the upstream is a cracker, and next time, he'll do worse.
>
>> Stop being ridiculous. You are doing acussations which are simply
>> silly. You are turning this into a flamewar against Upstream and
>> that is becoming more annoying than anything what Upstream did.
>
> I am silly?
Yes you are when you say that next time he'll do worse "this boy have
stole a candy, we should kill him because next time he'll do worse"
> You want to ignore a denial of service poison pill, and you think I
> am being silly?
DOS ? Well, micq is an icq client, and the (very stupid) modification
made by upstream doesn't make me unable to use icq (well, I'm using
gnomeicu...).
Be serious. The program even give a immediate solution to the
problem. (to download the upstream debian package).
Of course, he is a very stupid, childish man for doing this, but it
doesn't make him a criminal.
[...]
>> Although iam not backing Ruediger up in this case - the Debian
>> Project does not only consist of the Debian maintainer only, there
>> could have happend a lot of talk to prevent all what happened now -
>> i do not see how removing the Package would do the Users any good.
>
> We have to yank the package until we know there are no other
> such cool hacks waiting to hit our users again. Who knows who else he
> may have gotten mad at in the past and included other such brilliant
> pieces of hackery, just waiting to be triggered? Who knows whom he
> may get mad at in the future?
I really believe that you are paranoid here.
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Rémi Vanicat
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http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vanicat
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