On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/21/2011 04:21 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> thus it's not going to materialise out of thin air >> unless someone's paid to work on it. unless you're extremely lucky. >> >> [...] get the f*****g software written - >> the debian packaging takes care of itself. > > Gratuitous expletives aside, this is a curious juxtaposition. Just > where do you think solid debian packaging comes from? > > We want good debian packages because debian policy maintains reasonable > technical functionality and cross-tool compatibility, and protects user > and developer freedom. This takes work. People volunteer to do this > work, or people get paid to do this work. None of it "takes care of > itself".
yes - if you observe carefully, you'll note that i fully support this, and went to quite a lot of trouble to ensure that it was said. i see a general theme that people wish to see the absolute worst in what i write. no, that's wrong: they take what i write, then ignore it completely, and then say "you said this shit thing about xyz". it's getting _really_ stale - stop it!! so, let's pretend that you read what i wrote, yes? which said, "debian packaging and infrastructure whilst absolutely essential and the best trusted (GPG-signed) infrastructure on the planet for this project is NOT the only thing needed. unfortunately, ACTUAL SOFTWARE WHICH DOESN'T EXIST NEEDS TO BE DEVELOPED". do i have to say it again, or are you going to deliberately misunderstand and then tell everyone how shit i am. _again_??? l. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
