Bug#126901: acknowledged by developer (Freedicts)
On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 12:47 AM, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
This is not a contest. If you thought these were so totally
different, why did yo close the bug? evidently, you knew that you
were hijacking an ITP, and wanted a fait accompli.
Because the old ITP seemed irrelevant. Consider this case: what if
somebody proposed to package libxpm 4 months ago, and today I propose to
package XFree86 v4, which includes libxpm already. Am I really
proposing the same thing? I think not.
We are, at least theoretically, supposed to be a cooperative
community. A mail message coordinating with the ITP issuer would not
have cost that much, and gained in goodwill.
That is true, and it was my mistake in assuming that his ITP was dead.
I have encountered so many of those in wnpp recently that it is not all
that unreasonable to assume that one that was proposed 4 months ago with
zero activity since is dead. In this case, that assumption was in
error, as I have already stated. I don't see where the disagreement is.
I made an erroneous assumption; people keep attacking me for it as if
they want me to say something other than "I made a mistake." Well, I'll
keep saying it until people listen.
Since you, and others, continue to refuse to accept this statement, what
else can I do?
What I did say was that I felt that the assumptions made at the time
were not unjustified given the circumstances.
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