Re: Debian has failed us

[Arnaud Delobelle <delobelle@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 13 Jan 2007, at 08:49, Holger Levsen wrote:
[...]
> I dont think _this_ thread is the cause for Bens perception, rather  
> those
> threads which _started_ with these mails (and others):
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/04/msg00407.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/08/msg00100.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/09/msg00139.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/11/msg00164.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/11/msg00137.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2007/01/msg00012.html
>
> *sigh*
>
> And to repeat what not only I've said before: various debian people  
> (whether
> they are part of the installer team or not) care about powerpc, are  
> happy
> about patches and run it daily on their main machines.
>
> And to repeat what also has been said before: the ongoing flamewars  
> probably
> hurt the powerpc port more than anything else. I switched my focus  
> mostly
> over to powerpc on debian-edu (instead of debian-installer) cause  
> I'm sick of
> these flamewars. But I'm also sick to hear that debian (or the
> debian-installer team) wants the powerpc port to die or that it's dead
> already (so I sometimes take a stand in this dispute). FUD as its  
> best.
                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

AFAIK Sven Luther has not contributed to this thread and seems to be
banned from posting on debian lists.  Thus it strikes me that to bring
him into this (and to imply that he brainwashed readers of the list) is
not going to help extinguish the flamewars you (and most others) are so
sick of.

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Arnaud Delobelle