On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 05:10:40PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Jonathan Dowland writes ("Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's > Debian package"): > > The "bad" packages Harald is talking about, I think, are external to > > Debian — I don't think he's trying to protect a DD here. So this is > > courtesy rather than hiding problems.
Since Harald wrote he is using the external package I see no evidence for your assumption. Harald is effectively preventing us from enhancing a Debian package - or at least checking whether there is room for enhancement after a technical evaluation. > I think in most cases it would be perfectly possible to name the > upstream in question without "shaming" them. I do not remember that disputing potential enhancement of a Debian package has put any shame on anybody. (But may be my memory is weak.) > Just because an upstream (or indeed anyone else) has done something > technical differently to the way we would have done it doesn't mean > that they are wrong. And even if they are wrong, we recognise that > (a) everyone makes mistakes (b) everyone has limited effort for doing > thins well. +1 > The questions raised in this thread are mixed social and technical > ones. I even fail to see any mix here. There are people who try to turn this into a social problem (which makes me really nervous admittedly). > If the OP would tell us what, specifically, we are talking about, it > might be possible to come up with useful answers and suggestions. I consider debian-devel as a honest forum where problems are properly discussed. Vague guessing should be done rather somewhere else. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150225095059.gd3...@an3as.eu