On Sunday, June 23, 2024 10:46:33 AM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: > Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de> writes: > > On 23.06.24 04:45, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> that just feels wrong to me. Rude. Dismissive. And self-defeating > >> for Debian as a whole. > > > > 100% agree. Though again: that *feels* rude and dismissive. I'm *not* > > ascribing *intent* to be rude or dismissive to anybody here, and I'm sure > > Russ isn't either. > > Yes, thank you, that's an important clarification and I agree. I do not > want to speculate about other people's intent, and I think it's very easy > to get mentally stuck in a corner when new work changes an invariant that > you believed was important, even if it comes with an argument for why that > invariant isn't as important as you thought. I think that can work both ways. I am old enough to have seen many instances of some new hotness coming along and any objection to it being swept aside because it was clear that the people objecting just didn't understand why the new hotness was so wonderful and why their concerns didn't matter anymore. My experience has been that when those concerns have been ignored (they usually are), things often don't end well. Scott K
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