Re: Debian and upstream choices

[Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 01:20:35PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> 2014/10/28 20:37 "Chris Bannister" <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 08:07:50PM +0100, lee wrote:
> > >
> > > The point is that I was right and you were wrong.  It wasn't right
> > > of you to so strongly urge people to "take issues upstream".  It's not
> > > as easy to "faciliate change" as you seem to think.
> >
> > Now I know what the following joke means:
> >
> > "There is a man on his hands and knees searching around him. A man comes
> > along and asks what is the problem. He says I've lost 10 dollars, so the
> 
>     "I've lost my linux-based operating system distribution and community."

So you want the link to the netinst image, why didn't you say?
http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst

> > man bends down and starts helping him look. After a while of futile
> > searching the man says, hmmm, this isn't getting us anywhere; where did
> > you lose it. The man replies, Further on up the road, but the light's
> > better here."
> >
> > There's not much debian-user can do about facilitating change whether
> > upstream is receptive or not.
> 
> I dunno. That sounds a little cynical to me.

Come on Lee, unless you are going to write patches and submit them to
the Debian maintainer via the BTS, which I gather from your mails is not
your intention, then what can complaining on debian-user about upstream
achieve?

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