Re: Bug#797021: ITP: midicsv -- translate MIDI file to CSV

Hi Santiago-

Santiago Vila wrote:

I can't believe this is just a "coincidence"
What kind of strange package hijacking is this?

Wow, that is quite a coincidence! (But that's all it is...)

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 04:46:05PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:

Was there a previous ITP bug?

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:24:12PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:

> Everything boils down to an ITP bug?

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> wrote:

In the case of a dispite, well, yeah, that's clearly why they exist.

> I think this clearly shows my intent to package it:

Sure, *your* intent, but that's not you getting the global mutex. If I
want to package something, I'll search for a RFP or ITP, and use that.
If I don't see anything, I put it in NEW.

Yup, that's exactly what I did (as usual).

I discovered midicsv last week -- its just what I needed for a project I'm working on, and seemed like a generally useful tool.

Finding no existing Debian package, no ITP, and no google hits for "debian midicsv", I filed an ITP, packaged it, and uploaded it to the new queue.

Santiago Vila wrote:

> https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/wip/

Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> wrote:

... I surely don't look at every DD's people.d.o for a .dsc

Of course. Neither did I. Because that's what ITP's are for. I'm not sure, Santiago, how you imagine that I or anyone else might have known of your "intent" to package this.

Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> wrote:

When two threads do work without both checking the mutex, you end up with
a race condition when both try to write data back out.

Live and learn. This is literally why ITPs exist.

Frankly, you're assuming malice. That's out of line, Why not be friendly
and create something positive out of this.

Well said, Paul.

Santiago, it is disappointing that you'd jump to the (wholly incorrect) conclusion that I had somehow hijacked "your" package or your work. Its just a coincidence that we both happened to package this on the same day (but I followed proper ITP upload procedures, whereas you didn't).

-Kamal