Re: Suggestion for next Debian release
* MH (mh@seitung.net) spake thusly:
...
> What's about filing a bug against bitchx instead of passively
> complaining here...
I'm complaining rather actively (check the archives). My gripe
is not with bitchx per se (I've only logged on to irc once or
twice last year, I just did a dpkg --purge bitchx), it is with
the direction Debian is going, spec. with FUBAR'ing things
that weren't broken in the name of luser-friendliness (dexconf,
alsaconf, pam'ifying /sbin/halt).
I can live with it, if $PACKAGE also installs a small $LIBRARY
in case it's going to be used with $OTHER_PACKAGE. In fact, I
can't think of a better solution here. The problem is that once
you've let this genie out, less cluefull maintainers will sooner
or later make their packages depend on e.g. the whole fscking X
subsystem, "in case someone wants to run my $foo in xterm".
As far as I can tell the bug is between maintainer's chair and
keyboard. I don't see how filing a bug against $PACKAGE will fix
that, I fully expect that bug to be marked "wontfix". Ridiculing
the guy in public, OTOH, might work.
Dima (always the optimist)
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