Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?
Patrick Winnertz wrote:
> I add it to the svn you removed it and when i ask you why you do it, you
> told me that the tarballs doesn't belong into svn. you never mention any
> other place where to put the tarball.
>
> The only thing you mentioned were debian/rules upstream to build it, so
> that everybody can build his own tarball to work on.... sorry but this
> won't work.
> Furthermore your tone was not very friendly but very nerved and tersely.
Note: this was done when I had some spare internet acces while vacation
in Berlin. I explained that to you why I don't have time to explain it
in more detail.
> You told me several times that you prepared a finished package but you
> simply forgot to commit your changes into the svn, and that you will
> upload it debian "this night". When I remember correct you told me this 3
> times. 3 times nothing happens.
Because new issues with it arrised. I though at that time to better not
upload the package with those issues. History says I should have
probably had.
> As I mentioned above I would prefer not to post the full communication,
> since this is private. (And as you know there are some things within you
> won't want to see in public).
for others: the parenteses refere to nda related stuff.
> I told you that I don't have to explain why you shouldn't in the group, but
> you have to explain why to be in it.
> Then you try to threaten me with "do you really want a
> schlammschlacht....? " (freely translated, sorry doesn't no a fitting
> english word).
i still think there is no problem with me beeing in uploaders and you
beeing the maintainer. i still don't think we should 'discuss' the issue
as we do right now and why there cannot be a team with a mailinglist for
communication.
> As reason why I do not want you to be within the maintaining group I told
> you that I group maintain it with Michael and Marvin and this is more than
> enough people for this package.
> There were really hugh problems concerning
> virtualbox which you simply do not see when uploading the package the
> first time (sponsored for Philipp Hug) at debconf.
Phillip Hug is a DD. He can upload packages on his own. Hence he did
upload the package on his own, I did not see it before as I was busy
working together with Otavio at most parts of Debconf.
> Sorry?!? You'll never talked with me after the debconf upload (which was
> also a very fast and dirty hack). Everytime I started after this a
> communication with you I got as a answer: Sorry I have no time. Please do
> not distrurb (also freely translated).
Philip did the upload, not me. You did contact me one time after
Debconf, when I was, as announced, on vacation (with infrequent and
unstable internet access).
> It's okay to have a real-life.. I also have one. But if you have one and do
> not do anything the last 6 months you can state that and say: Sorry I have
> atm no time for this.
from your mouth, it sounds like I was MIA the last several months :))
> Please have a look on the bugs which are all assigned to you... and how
> many are fixed there. You have much to many packages which you maintain
> and many of them are more or less unmaintained and have several serious
> bugs assigned to them.
umaintained? That's an unfair and untruth claim. There is one or two
packages which definitely deserved more love, both are beeing taken care
of (ipac-ng and thttpd that is).
> I do understand that you don't have that time to
> work on virtualbox, but then you should also accept that we do not want to
> add you to the Uploader field only because you would like to be a
> maintainer of it.
I don't want to be the maintainer of it, I want to be a, or one of
several, co-maintainers.
> I've looked at the svn commits... for all who also want to have a look on
> it please see here:
>
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-virtualbox/dists/trunk/virtualbox/debian/?op=log&rev=0&sc=1&isdir=1
>
> All things you do was the initial commit loong ago and then twice you
> changed only the changelog.
> And then after I start working in it, you revert my complete changes.
That's wrong. The *only* thing I reverted is the layout change in the
svn (rational for it is given in the previous mail).
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