Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Note that less than a week after having been removed, mplayer and lilo > have been fixed. It's fun to see how easy it is to fix "unsolvable" bugs > with the proper incentive. I'm really glad that mplayer is finally fixed. That was apparently indeed a good example of a case where a little motivation went a long way. The lilo fix is only a workaround. Systems can still get a large initramfs, and have lilo abort, and end up failing to boot. Another case is NTP, which was kicked out of testing for a licensing bug, causing much grief to be reported on debian-user. I think that the release team is being far too cavalier about the collatoral damage their policies are causing. And, apparently, much too enamoured of slavish adherence to policies and procedures. When I was a minor member of the release team, I always tried to think through the consequneces of my decisions. And I have always been proud of the care, attention to detail, and followthrough that the release managers have brought to their work. Something seems to have changed.. -- see shy jo
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