Bug#283578: hot-babe_0.2.2-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED
For the record, the package has been REJECTed after being held for 6
months by ftpmasters on the following grounds:
quoting the original message I received:
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Subject: hot-babe_0.2.2-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 10:00:02 -0400
Hi Maintainer,
I decided to reject this package out of NEW.
Sorry, but I cant see the use of this compared with the thousands of
cpu-monitors we already have in the archive.
- Its *very* imprecise and to actually get it to change images needs
more than just a kernel compile
(in fact in my test I never got it to change pics - i just got it to
segfault).
- Hell, there are much easier ways to get some interesting pics on the
display. :)
- We already have thousands of packages in the archive. And our users
have problems to find whats important, so we constantly try to not add
things that only increase archive/mirror size/packages list and stuff
and are not worth it or where there is not much userbase expected.
If you completly disagree with me you are free to
- provide users with an own little repository for it. apt-ftparchive is
easy and helps there.
- complain with a reply, stating some very good reasons to try to change
my mind.
- Start a threadevel, similar to the first big hot-babe flamewar.
But don't expect something useful out of a flamewar. :)
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There have been some mails exchanged between the ftpmaster and me, and
nothing worthwhile came out of it, so I won't struggle any more to get
this package in.
--
Thibaut VARENE
Debian, Ubuntu and Kernel hacker
http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/
It is never wise to assume that genius programmers cannot do something
because the incompetent or mediocre cannot. -- Eric Raymond
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