On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:49:22AM -0600, Scott Dier wrote: > * Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010122 02:38]: > > > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but > > > that > > > this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lack something... > > Martin? It it the quality of a Debian maintainer to find the right line(s) > > in > > a 100k C/C++ patch and moreover feeling sure enough about it to say that > > this
> http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution ... > That reads a bit like: > If you've got anything good to advance the project. Do it. This is correct but has nothing to do with the topic <g> Martin sounded a bit like if he were complaining about my lack to backport a patch for a database engine consisting of many C/C++ lines to another version. Whereas I was of the opinion that it is nice if some programmer could do this but this ability is not regarded as "required" by a maintainer. but lets drop this topic, we're getting boring. bye, -christian- -- codito ergo sum - I code, therefore I am!
