On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:00:59AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Maybe the problem is that Debian accepts bug reports for things that are not > broken (at least not inside cdrecord).
Debian is not a monolithic entity. It's a large group of individual developers, each of whom works in complete isolation, and has almost total authority over his or her assigned packages. Getting a Debian developer to accept a patch (or bug, or whatever) can be easy or it can be impossible. It depends on the developer. This can be rather frustrating, if the package you're dealing with happens to have one of the obtuse developers. (I can name one such package and developer, but it's off topic here, as it's not related to CD writing.) Now, clearly Steve and Joerg aren't seeing eye to eye on some issues. I don't know enough about the issues in question to know which one of them is right. As an end user, I have choices -- I can use the Debian version of a program, or I can use the upstream author's version. Most of the time, the Debian version of a package works fine. In a few cases, the upstream version works better. So, end users like me should just try both versions and use whichever one works better. Continuing to flame Joerg or Steve is not productive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
