Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Jon Dowland <jon+debian-devel@alcopop.org> wrote:only to say that "this is really just applying a patch, no need to panic".How about defaulting to assume if the maintainer hasn't posted, there's no reason to panic. Assume the maintainer knows better than slashdot or reddit about his/her own package :-)
Is Debian a community or instead random developers and users with some common (???) objectives? BTW you are right, but we saw the notice in LWN, where it describes EGLIBC as a library targeted to embedded systems, that now (because of the blog post) seems mature for other use. Do you think this is reassuring? I think that right information at right place is a lot better than misleading information (found in wrong places). So let Debian community to know where Debian is going. This has nothing to do about the decision of the maintainers. BTW we are speaking about libraries, which affects a lot of packages (this in particular), we have a lot of notices about libraries transitions (and troubles) so I think it is normal to expect worries; OTOH I know that we should not worry). It is human (yes Debian is also human!). ciao cate