On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:06:29PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > I can give a couple of examples; one is way back when, before I took > > over the maintenance of the e2fsprogs package, and was merely the > > upstream author. The then maintainer of e2fsprogs attempted to add > > support for filesystems > 2GB, but botched the job, and the result was > > people with filesystems > 2GB would in some circumstances, get their > > filesystems trashed. Of course, those people complained directly to > > me, and the reputation of e2fsprogs took a hit as a result. I was > > pissed, but I was informed there was nothing I could do; the > > maintainer of the package can do whatever they want, upstream wishes > > be d*mned, unless you try to go through a rather painful appeal > > process via a then-relatively inactive technical committeee. > > If it lured you into becoming a DD we should mess up more upstream code :-)
So obviously by that logic Ubuntu is doing the right thing by luring all Debian developers to become Ubuntu in order to protect their reputation? :-) - Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]