Re: Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 04:51:48PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On 24 Apr 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst uttered the following: On Mon, April 24, 2006 15:39, Manoj Srivastava wrote: new upload _now_. I feel uncomfortable acceding to practices I consider unethical, and I lack the motivation to

Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, After seven and a half years of maintaining Gnus, I am having to give away the package, on what I consider is a matter of principle. My upload removing non-DFSG bits was rejected, on the grounds that the upload renamed the source package name (the

Re: Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Jorgen Schaefer
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After seven and a half years of maintaining Gnus, I am having to give away the package, on what I consider is a matter of principle. My upload removing non-DFSG bits was rejected, on the grounds that the upload renamed the source package

Re: Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Dorland
* Jorgen Schaefer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After seven and a half years of maintaining Gnus, I am having to give away the package, on what I consider is a matter of principle. My upload removing non-DFSG bits was rejected, on the

Re: Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, April 24, 2006 15:39, Manoj Srivastava wrote: new upload _now_. I feel uncomfortable acceding to practices I consider unethical, and I lack the motivation to fight the ftp masters and the project on this issue. You use the term unethical to describe a difference in opinion about a

Re: Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 24 Apr 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst uttered the following: On Mon, April 24, 2006 15:39, Manoj Srivastava wrote: new upload _now_. I feel uncomfortable acceding to practices I consider unethical, and I lack the motivation to fight the ftp masters and the project on this issue. You use the term

Re: Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, April 24, 2006 23:51, Manoj Srivastava wrote: uttered the following: Rubbish. If you think those are noght struggles, you are naive. You are very silly, really, thinking this. Please grow up. Your lack of imagination Don't you have anything better to do topics you seem to

Re: Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 24 Apr 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst verbalised: Thanks for proving my point. I think it's due time to close this entire discussion. Prove what? That you are a troll who brought nothing constructive to the discussion, and have demonstrated how effectively you can cause a discussion to

Re: Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Rubbish. I do no such thing, and I'll thank you not to try and escalate this into a flamewar. The difference of opinion is merely that -- differing views held by different people. I consider the practice of creating a fake upstream version and

Re: Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 24 Apr 2006, Joey Hess outgrape: Manoj Srivastava wrote: Rubbish. I do no such thing, and I'll thank you not to try and escalate this into a flamewar. The difference of opinion is merely that -- differing views held by different people. I consider the practice of creating a fake upstream