Pollywog wrote:
On Monday 06 November 2006 03:47, Kent West wrote:ChadDavis wrote:But what's with all the attitude people flash around here.We're people; people are imperfect.It's nothing the Debian developers can't fix ;)
... In time for all us users to file many many bug reports against the "human" package, which will be deemed "unfixable" by the package maintainer and become Orphaned forever with only the critical bugs fixed (hopefully) before each release.
That is, of course, if we can even find a DD who's brave enough to do an ITP on the package after someone files a Wishlist bug to have it built.
And it's highly likely due to the complexity of the Author's upstream source for creating the human software, that there's some hidden problems deeply rooted in the fact that even though human is relatively easy to dissect, it's difficult to understand what the code is doing and/or going to do, which makes the Security team's job very difficult...
And there's likely to be debates over which license the human is operating under... commonly known as "religions" in end-user terms.
Once all this came to light, Debian would likely have to pull human from the main branch and either carry human only in contrib or not at all, depending on the licensing used and whether or not there were enough developers that believe that our DNA is all the source code needed to consider "human" DSFG-Free.
Of course there's always the possibility that the non-Free aspects of human could be removed and the package, while mostly crippled and unusable, and with a new stupid(er) name would be allowed to remain in main.
:-) :-) :-) Nate