On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:03:28AM +0000, Thomas Weber wrote: > Hi, > > Am Montag, den 12.01.2009, 22:55 +0100 schrieb Pierre Habouzit: > > Now that's a recommendation. You mean the guy dealing with: > > > > - http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/insight.html > > - http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/enchant.html > > or even > > - http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/ptex-bin.html > > > > and didn't care to either orphan his packages or seek co-maintenance > > AFAICT, but still disappeared without a word since august 2008. Yeah, > > Hell of a recommandation for sure. > > You have nothing to say about Martin-Éric, but criticizes his sponsor. > If you have a problem with Masayuki, you should clarify that with him > directly or the MIA team, if necessary. Okay, we can also talk about the recent gs debacle if you prefer, where the maintainer uploaded over a NMU reverting a fix, and causing collateral damage so that people had to use t-p-u as a workaround: * the NMU: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/ghostscript/news/20081229T223211Z.html * the perfect idea, let's upload a new upstream during a hard freeze, always makes good impression, and of course do that before the NMU has transitioned for good measure: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/ghostscript/news/20090104T031709Z.html * and people having to use t-p-u for that: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/ghostscript/news/20090106T104705Z.html What I'm saying is that I don't trust his opinion of Martin-Éric, and that on the other hand, I've not seen Matin-Éric methods improve in his recent work. For example: http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cups-pdf/news/20080624T001702Z.html or http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/ispell-et/news/20080908T073206Z.html or http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rus-ispell/news/20080910T113208Z.html show that he for example doesn't test upgrade paths on a regular basis. I cannot say if he's still handling people the same way he did in the past for I see no really major contribution since. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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