On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 02:24:07PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Chris Bannister ([email protected]): > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:34:23AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 19 August 2015 06:23:07 [email protected] wrote: > > > > I'm sitting here at Debconf [3], among literally hundreds of Debian > > > > developers, all of them working hard (many of them in their free > > > > time) > > > > > > I thought all of them did it in their free time. > > > > > > > to give to us this fantastic distribution. > > > > > > I think I have said before, the only possible words are "thank you". > > > It's > > > fantastic what you all do. > > > > > > > I understand your > > > > frustration (I often swear at my computer too, and do even worse > > > > things), but I think the best way forward is to get involved. > > > > > > Some of us just aren't enough use for that, sadly. So all we can do is > > > be > > > grateful. And remember: > > > > > > You can please all of the people some of the time and > > > you can please some of the people all of the time; but > > > you cannot please all of the people all of the time. > > > > > > And I actually think that you cannot please some of the people ever. > > > > To be fair, there are some Debian.readme which make no sense to an end > > user. I've seen some Debian.readme files which talk about about how to > > compile the program. Hello? Isn't Debian a "binary" distribution. > > I don't think I can let this stand. Are you confusing README.Debian > files with the README files that may or may not come from upstream?
Of course not. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
