Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 09-Mar-08, 19:30 (CDT), Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> wrote: 
> I was going to ask on which grounds exactly you were judging the dpkg
> team's competence (and that of iwj's: have you reviewed the branch
> yourself? can you confidently say that it's all fine?),

The problem is not the dpkg team has reviewed the patch and had problems
with it, it's that they've ignored it for 6 months.

I don't approve of IanJ's hijack attempt, but in this he's got a
legitimate complaint. So do the rest of us who've been waiting for
triggers for *years*.

Steve

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Steve Greenland
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