On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 10:52 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, William Pitcock said: > >> The only way it is feasible to do so is to drop all of the Debian > >> patches. Without this, upstream is not cooperative with us. > > > > Why is this? > > I think because of William Pitcock with: > - his very strong words, > - his attitude: perfect or nothing (in design, in management, ...), > - his lack to listen upstreams and their needs: needs of other > distributions, old compatibility needs, or simply time > constrain and limited interest of upstream. > > ciao nenolod ;-) Actually, the damage was done years ago, long before I ever maintained lilo. But thanks for the flame. William
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