Bug#578750: [RFP] Kmid2 (again)
Hi Valerio,
You said:
> I fear that either the qt-kde debian team will refuse my kmid package
> anyway or that I might encounter problems with upstream author.
Sorry for the cross-posting. I am the upstream author, and somehow I've found your message in the mailing list archives. I'm answering your message because you deserve to know the facts, and mitigate your fear. I also have the right to defend my reputation, and fight against any misinformation, propaganda or innuendo against me coming from the IRC channels and mailing lists. I can't talk about that theory of a mafia actively blocking Kmid, but I positively assure you that I am not a monster.
Here are the facts. More than one year ago, in May/2010, Leandro (along with his sponsor Ana Guerrero) was trying to package my Drumstick libraries for Debian, because this package is required by Kmid2 (and by my other programs: Kmidimon and Kmetronome, already in Debian). They found that Drumstick included a dozen utility programs without the corresponding man pages, which are required by Debian standards, so they asked me to write the man pages. I've done so, committed the man pages to the SVN repository and sent him a patch containing the requested man pages and build system changes. Instead of applying this patch to his package, he answered me that the Drumstick and Kmid2 Debian packages were postponed until a future release of Drumstick that included the man pages, giving me the argument that he works in Debian as a volunteer, without time to waste processing patches. I was shocked by this argument because I'm also a volunteer. I'm not paid for writing Kmid2 or any of my other Linux programs. My relationship with them was seriously compromised, and any future collaboration between down and upstream was doubtful, with these precedents.
I want to say that I'm in very good relationship with other Debian developers: Adrian, Free, Alessio, Arnout and Mehdi. I thank you for your work with my programs, especially for the contributions that you made and sent upstream.
Debian is now the only major distribution not including Kmid2. For your convenience, in Ubuntu you can find Kmid2 in these PPA's:
https://launchpad.net/~ferramroberto/+archive/testing/+build/1920542
https://launchpad.net/~kxstudio-team/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=kmid2
Regards,
Pedro
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