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Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository



On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:49:50PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
> Have you ever heard the fable concerning a father, a son and a donkey?
> In a nutshell, first, nobody rides down the road on the donkey, and
> instead lead him with a rope. People criticized them for doing so, e.g.
> "why not let the kid ride on top of the donkey?"
> 
> So, the father told the kid to ride the donkey. Then people criticized
> them again, for not letting the father ride the donkey instead. So, they
> switched again. Then people criticized that too, so they wound up
> carrying the donkey. Eventually, they reached a stream and fell in the
> water because there was too much weight in once place on the bridge they
> were crossing.

Wouldn't that happen whether they were riding or carrying the donkey?

-- 
Chris.
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"One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned
   at the stake while the votes were being counted."  -- Thomas B. Reed


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