On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:47:40PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > 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
Buahahaha :))) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]