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Re: Updating the policy for conflicting binaries names ? [was: Re: Re: New package netgen-lvs with binary /usr/bin/netgen - already taken]



Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> writes:

> I thought this would would have been less offensive than the normal
> "This is a lie." when a statement is the exact opposite of the
> truth (compare [1] with the claim "no upstream release since 2013"), 
> but as non-native speaker I accept your explanation that I was wrong
> on that.

"I don't think this is correct" is a less confrontational way of phrasing
this that assumes the other person is writing in good faith and just made
a mistake, as opposed to maliciously attempted to deceive people, which is
what both your original phrasing and "this is a lie" (unintentionally, I
assume) implied.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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