Hello, On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: > I *really* feel my work between lbzip2-0.15 and lbzip2-0.17, both > upstream and packaging, is down the drain.
At the very least this work was of use to _you_ --- so it is not down the drain. > I was pestering the bzip2 and tar package maintainers to cooperate > with me on alternatives symlinks, but once it comes to specifics, > they conveniently ignore me. I guess they are right; if users don't > care, why should they? And why should users care if lbzip2 is not > useful to them? I'm just hurting because I worked in vain to serve > what I perceived to be a user request. Won't happen ever again, I > promise. I don't really understand how you feel. However, Galois, Abel, van Gogh and others who spent their life unappreciated might have felt even greater pain than you do! :-) This is not meant to mock you but to help you appreciate the fact that doing a nice job (as you have done) does not necessarily lead to appreciation from the society at large. This should not deter us from continuing to do our best. Regards, Kapil. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org