Dear Charles,
[Charles Plessy] > I hope that the points I make feel valuable, especially the > demonstration that bs1770gain is a total outlier among more than > 30,000 packages, and that you will consider taking action. I was never in doubt that bs1770gain is an outlier, and your willingness to process tens of thousands of web pages to try to prove this point did not really provide any new information, nor change my opinion regarding the homepage URL of this package. Note thought that I do find it valuable to have it measured and documented that this is an outlier, and to know that there are very few packages from people with views that are so far from my own. I also do appreciate your feedback and willingness to try to follow through your opinion with actions to convince others to share your view. I still believe though that the advantages of machine readable links in debian/control to the package origin outweigh the effect of any improved search ranking, as I believe the latter is very minuscule. Your email did on the other hand remind me to have a look at the package and made sure I became aware of some minor issues in BTS that need to be taken care of. Thank you for this. I'll try to get to that as soon as possible, and contacted upstream in the hope that he will fix the C code to keep the program working also with newer versions of glibc, so I do not have to. The reason I find the Daryl Davis story inspiring is that I believe dialog with the people we disagree with is the only way to change such peoples minds. His willingness to have a dialog the members of the Ku Klux Klan while confronting their opinions seem to me a very good method to reduce the number of racist people. The trailer for the documentary covering the story can be found via <URL: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=V7fh5J_mo5E >. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
