Hi, It's been 40 days since I initially asked for gtk-gnutella to be included into volatile. A few days ago (30th Dec) I got a private response from Martin (via IRC). In it he said (I'm paraphrasing): - he needs to earn a living - the patch is very large - gtk-gnutella is at the bottom of his todo list (now) 1. No one here begrudges you the fact that you have to earn a living. What I do begrudge you is that it took you over 30 days to say you were busy! Yes after my email, you were able to come up with a quick note to say you are busy. 2. The patch is what you asked for. While I can appreciate the fact that the debian-volatile group wants to review changes before accepting them; essentially you are saying that you'll be able to spot something that neither upstream nor myself have. Secondly, if you had asked for a brief summary of the patch file (since you are too busy -- too busy to let anyone know for 30 days!), I'd have been to do so. After all, I spent 30 minutes going through some of your queries about the diff at 05:30 in the morning. 3. All you hurt are end-users of Debian Your response indicated that, because of the tone of my previous message, even if you weren't busy you'd put looking gtk-gnutella on the bottom of your to-do list. Of the three classes of Debian users (developers, "power" users, end-users) the last set is who you are hurting as they will not know/understand that they could recompile a later version in order to have a functioning gtk-gnutella. Personally I find it very sad to have met a fellow developer who does not agree with the Debian Social Contract (`Our priorities are our users and free software'). Perhaps the new year will see you re-invigorated and with more personal time available to you. Anand -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, "If this goes on --"
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