On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:18:56AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Yep, so please work on it, I see you've diligently failed to notice revision 734. > That said, i have submited all that is needed for the SDK patch > upstream, i have sent a patch back then, the only thing missing is the > needed work to actually build it, and even then, i posted something to > the list a few weeks ago. Okay. > If i go ahead, and send you a patch against 0pre1v4, will you apply it > ? You should know better than to ask for this sort of commitment. I will do my best to look it over, but I will not promise to apply a patch sight unseen. That would be a stupid policy and a betrayal of my efforts to release high-quality packages. > This will include the stuff i already commited to the upstream 4.3.0 > bugfix branch, and doesn't in any way influence stuff not related to > the SDK (it is just a bunch of SDK related Imakefile fixes). The > second part is the needed modification to build a xfree86-driver-sdk > package containing a single tarball of the SDK to be unpacked wherever > you want. Debian packages that just ship tarballs to be "unpacked wherever you want" seem pretty nasty to me. If the best distribution format for something is a .tar.gz, then I don't see why we should ship it as a .deb instead. Nevertheless I will attempt to discern whether that's really the best approach in this particular case. > I have not seen you make a single comment on this subject, and my > patches went unanswered, beside of your mention that Daniel is working > on them. DanielS seemed to care about the issue, so I delegated it to him. Why should I micromanage something I have delegated? Is it your impression that he has lost interest? If so, then the task needs to be reassigned. He did make a commit the other day that I don't fully understand yet, telling people to "look for stuff in the attic". > And you believe in making things more difficult for the DD, so as to > separate the elite from the rest, or maybe those that have paid debian > jobs from the others ? I expect people who want me to do something to do a little better than issuing a list of demands. The vast majority of my work on XFree86 is unpaid volunteer time, so I really don't know what you hope to achieve by casting vague asperions about "paid Debian jobs" and "elites". If there's an "elite" in Debian, I'm pretty sure I'm not a member of it. -- G. Branden Robinson | Intellectual property is neither Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual nor property. branden@debian.org | Discuss. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Linda Richman
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