On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:15:53AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > >>And, people, take it with humor that Rüdiger managed to hide code and > >>put it into debian. It was _not_ a personal offence against us! No need > >>to pay something back. > >It was a personal offence against Debian. It was a deliberate sabotage > >act, based only on personal prejudices, aimed towards the Debian mICQ > >users. It also shows, that Mr. Kühlmann cannot behave in a professional > >way. IMO the package should be removed from Debian ftp archives. > The best solution, if one have enougth free time, is fo fork it from > a "trusted" version, audit the code, and continue a separate development. If you have so much free time and care about this package, feel free. IMHO, if a package for interfacing with a proprietary chat system can cause this much ruckus, we would be better able to serve our users by dropping the package altogether. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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