On 05/06/2014 02:39 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi Zack, > > Zack Weinberg <za...@panix.com> writes: >> Note that coinstallability is not enough -- the bulletproof procedure >> (e.g. "update-init-system") must also be implemented, shipped, and >> documented. > Your tone is way out of line. Who are you to tell us what we _must_ do? > That’s not how it works.
I apologize. I write like that because I do a lot of standards work. It's the RFC 2119 "must", and in this context I don't mean anything more by it than that I personally consider this necessary for a satisfactory resolution of the bug I filed. > Either you do the work and convince us we should merge it or you make > suggestions. But you cannot tell us what we must do in our spare time. I am certainly prepared to do at least some of the work here, but since it involves coordinated changes to several different packages maintained by different groups, it seems best to get agreement on a plan first. zw
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