Bug#636123: linux-image-2.6.39 not booting due to older package (not in list of dependencies!)
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> (culling the cc list)
> Hi Luke,
allo jonathan. appreciate that you took time on this one, very much.
i started writing a comprehensive reply, but then decided i was
spending my time on an issue where there's no guarantee that debian
developers will not do exactly the same thing: make themselves a way
to justify ensuring that i'm wasting my time, by designing a
deliberate trap to justify closing bugreports.
whilst that's extremely harsh (and the long message i wrote and just
deleted wasn't), it's the accurate summary and my main concern.
regarding the questions you asked: 3/4 can be answered by looking in
the first 3 responses i wrote. one of them had an excellent point
(have any other distros encountered this) and i've raised this on
lkml.
answers encountered there i will *not* be forwarding to the debian
developers, because i've encountered deliberate traps, now, too many
times. [e.g. one debian developer tells me it's not ok to downgrade
packages and closes the bugreport, then another actually requests i do
exactly that, then closes the bugreport *anyway* before further
methods for determining a solution can be found].
when i receive apologies for this kind of behaviour, i'll be happy to
present further findings. i really do have to try this as an
alternative interaction policy, rather than ignoring the times when
peoples' behaviour is, strictly speaking, unacceptable.
looking forward to not having to deal with this kind of silliness,
ever again, and wishing that there weren't so many users who were
dependent on people who put their egos before the people they're
supposed to be helping.
l.
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