On Tuesday 12 August 2003 17:07, w9ya wrote: > On Tuesday 12 August 2003 08:29 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > w9ya wrote: > > > Afterall, the first rule of packaging should be to make sure it > > > will > > > > actually > > > > > install as this is the first thing a package must do. I really > > > have a > > > > tough > > > > > time considering things to be merely not be "polished" when it > > > can't be installed using the standard procedures set aside for > > > installing. > > > > So, we can be expecting patches for the packages which don't > > install at present (aka this is a community distro, anyone can > > help)? > > Actually, somehow this got spread across (at least) two threads (as > these things sometimes seem to do !). i.e. So far this seems to have > been fixed by member(s) of the community after a request was posted > about a week or so ago by myself and one other. *And* -> I have > publicly thanked those involved in straightening this out. > > So yeah, the community has done their part well in correcting this > "lack of install" situation. I am more concerned about having to do > this "fix for lack of install" stuff. I was, and still am, concerned > that (some) package maintainers do not exhibit even this level of > care. It indicates something being more than just a little wrong > IMHO.
well, we do this because we know that mandrake developpers are busy. The fix is maybe simple, but since this is not the critical stuff, i guess it is normal to be delayed. -- Micka�l Scherer
