On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:10:10PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:17:50PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:31:59AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 05:16:07PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > a) it wasn't updated at the time, > > > > > > Not true. Your mail was dated "Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:50:03 +1100". > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > r998 | branden | 2004-01-29 22:48:07 -0500 (Thu, 29 Jan 2004) | 2 lines > > > > > > Update and rearrange. The list of 4.3.0-1 items is now specific. > > > > The mail had not arrived at the time. I'm sure you knew what I meant. If > > you didn't, please search for another XFree86 maintainer if it is, as > > you say, quite the critical piece of infrastructure. > > I cannot accept responsibility for the speed of Debian mailing list > delivery to your personal mailbox. The mailing list archives are > available, and generally lag the actual list traffic by considerably > less than 5 and a half days. No, I was asking for an update to this. See two paragraphs up. > > You have a memory like a sieve, and a selective one at that. And yes, I > > could use it from any number of machines, but they're all in the US, and > > I don't like triply-bouncing when I'm on 56k to begin with. It's kind of > > hard to do anything interactive, really. > > Then don't send insistent emails demanding a high level of interactivity > from others. I didn't demand, I queried; I found it odd that the workrate just suddenly dropped massively without warning. > > I asked for something that was not, as far as I could ascertain at the > > time, done. It turns out it was, thanks to the tyranny of terrible > > mailing lists > > ...and which you could just as easily have determined by visiting <URL: > http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/CHANGELOG.txt >. Particularly > if you knew Debian list delivery was laggy for you. I'm not saying *that* laggy. Look at the next commit (1003, I believe), which clarified things a little. My point was that I sent off the mail before the log for 1003 arrived. > > (I believe the next commit was the relevant one > > It was impossible to determine what you were really asking for. "Has > the patch status been updated yet?" To reflect what? Don't tell me it > was clear from context. All you quoted was a news item announcing > 4.3.0-1 status. No gory particulars were mentioned. What is the current status of blocker items of 4.3.0-1 into unstable? Has it changed? > > Yes, every 24 hours. And when I checked, I couldn't see that it was > > updated in Subversion. > > You said you didn't check Subversion, and wouldn't because it's too > difficult for you. > > Let's review: > > [irrelevant] > > I hope you're not trying to tell me Australia's timezone offset from > necrotic.deadbeast.net is on the order of 130 hours. It's 16, I believe. > If you can't use Subversion and refuse to use the Web, then I suggest > you ask people on IRC to retreive the information you desire and DCC it > to you. At the time, the website was not updated with 1003. Also, what makes you think I can do DCC? -- Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org
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