Pollywog wrote:
On Monday 06 November 2006 03:47, Kent West wrote:
ChadDavis wrote:
But what's with all the attitude people flash around here.
We're people; people are imperfect.
It's nothing the Debian developers can't fix ;)
... In time for all us users to file many many bug reports against the
"human" package, which will be deemed "unfixable" by the package
maintainer and become Orphaned forever with only the critical bugs fixed
(hopefully) before each release.
That is, of course, if we can even find a DD who's brave enough to do an
ITP on the package after someone files a Wishlist bug to have it built.
And it's highly likely due to the complexity of the Author's upstream
source for creating the human software, that there's some hidden
problems deeply rooted in the fact that even though human is relatively
easy to dissect, it's difficult to understand what the code is doing
and/or going to do, which makes the Security team's job very difficult...
And there's likely to be debates over which license the human is
operating under... commonly known as "religions" in end-user terms.
Once all this came to light, Debian would likely have to pull human from
the main branch and either carry human only in contrib or not at all,
depending on the licensing used and whether or not there were enough
developers that believe that our DNA is all the source code needed to
consider "human" DSFG-Free.
Of course there's always the possibility that the non-Free aspects of
human could be removed and the package, while mostly crippled and
unusable, and with a new stupid(er) name would be allowed to remain in main.
:-) :-) :-)
Nate
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