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Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal



On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:28:23PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> > I bet that multiarch gets included into Ubuntu about two weeks after
> > we released lenny without multiarch.
> 
> That's indeed the way the maintainer seems to work, and he keeps sitting
> on way too many packages, stopping progress in Debian. Thanks for the fish.
> 
> Multiarch should indeed go into Lenny, please consider an exception for it.

Before you bring this to the tech ctte and such, don't you need a refusal
by the maintainer?  I mean, AFAIK on this issue the only response has been
silence.  And the usual way to deal with silence is to interpret it as lack
of time rather than refusal (and accordingly send a polite offer to NMU).

-- 
Robert Millan

"The technological evasion of the license is as unacceptable as the
 legal evasion of the license [...].  That's the provision in section
 1 regarding keys. [...]  We say one thing: when you sell somebody a
 home... give him the keys"  -- Eben Moglen on GPLv3


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