On 23/02/11 12:23, Holger Levsen wrote:
Sorry. I phrased it wrong. I committed a largish change to git and then tested when I had the chance (a few days later). Upon testing, I used the wrong variable in a couple of places, which obviously caused things to not work. I committed this with the log message "Fix bugs a few small bugs." Redundant word aside, the word "small" is what brought The Wrath of Ben on my head.Hi, On Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2011, Shachar Shemesh wrote:Giving feedback over the upstream trustworthiness is not the purpose of ITP bugs,oh, hell yes, it is. Where else should we discuss what software fits into Debian? debian-qa@ when it's too late?
Don't get me wrong. After the initial instinct to flame subsided, I didn't mind that much. I got a bunch of comments, about 50% of which were actually useful to some degree (all of which are already fixed), and I learned something about the Linux kernel that I didn't before.
If a maintainer's decision to relate to the size of the fix rather than the size of the consequence is a reason to boycott a package from Debian, then do let me know, because as things stand I intend to continue with the submitting process.
I'm sorry, Neil, but I'm quoting your message almost in full. Neil Williams sent me the following on January 3rd, regarding the previous thread about safewrite:and I have been warned by the list masters that discussing a specific package's upstream bugs on Debian-devel is off topic.I dont think this is neither true nor what they said. Surely a discussion about upstream bugs can become off-topic on debian-devel though.
To which I replied that I cannot terminate an already running thread, and the setting up a mailing list for a project which is likely to reach maturity in a couple of versions is a bit of a waste, but that I'll try to wind down the discussion thread. I'm assuming that his lack of response indicates that he found my answer satisfactory.Please remember,debian-devel@lists.debian.org is for discussion between Debian developers about issues within Debian (like problems within groups of packages or with particular tools), it's not intended for individual source code project development. This issue is general filesystem/programming issues, it is not Debian specific. Please can you find / setup a list for this project and move the discussion elsewhere from here on? If you want to keep it within the realm of source code related to Debian, an Alioth mailing list would be better.
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