Hello,
On šeštadienis 11 Birželis 2011 15:41:02 Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
Hi Valerio,
You said:
I fear that either the qt-kde debian team will refuse my kmid package
anyway or that I might encounter problems with upstream author.
Sorry for the cross-posting.
You should really be sorry.
I am the upstream author, and somehow I've
found your message in the mailing list archives. I'm answering your
message because you deserve to know the facts, and mitigate your fear. I
also have the right to defend my reputation, and fight against any
misinformation, propaganda or innuendo against me coming from the IRC
channels and mailing lists. I can't talk about that theory of a mafia
actively blocking Kmid, but I positively assure you that I am not a
monster.
I have no idea who you are but what such kind of mails are doing in public
user support mailing list (debian-...@lists.debian.org)? This is a personal
attack in my book. What's more, you put words in other people's mouth.
Here are the facts. More than one year ago, in May/2010, Leandro (along
with his sponsor Ana Guerrero) was trying to package my Drumstick
libraries for Debian, because this package is required by Kmid2 (and by my
other programs: Kmidimon and Kmetronome, already in Debian). They found
that Drumstick included a dozen utility programs without the corresponding
man pages, which are required by Debian standards, so they asked me to
write the man pages. I've done so, committed the man pages to the SVN
repository and sent him a patch containing the requested man pages and
build system changes. Instead of applying this patch to his package, he
answered me that the Drumstick and Kmid2 Debian packages were postponed
until a future release of Drumstick that included the man pages, giving me
the argument that he works in Debian as a volunteer, without time to waste
processing patches. I was shocked by this argument because I'm also a
volunteer. I'm not paid for writing Kmid2 or any of my other Linux
programs. My relationship with them was seriously compromised, and any
future collaboration between down and upstream was doubtful, with these
precedents.
I have read this paragraph and I don't understand what's the deal here. So
what, debian maintainer decided to wait until release. That's what Debian
maintainers do, i.e. they decide what's better Debian (or them at the
particular time), that's their right and duty. Sometimes users do not like (or
understand it), sometimes upstream does not like it, sometimes even
maintainers themselves don't like it (read during slow freezes).
I want to say that I'm in very good relationship with other Debian
developers: Adrian, Free, Alessio, Arnout and Mehdi. I thank you for your
work with my programs, especially for the contributions that you made and
sent upstream.
Then work with them on kmid2 packaging rather than rant on user support
mailing list.
Debian is now the only major distribution not including Kmid2. For your
convenience, in Ubuntu you can find Kmid2 in these PPA's:
https://launchpad.net/~ferramroberto/+archive/testing/+build/1920542
https://launchpad.net/~kxstudio-team/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.name_fil
ter=kmid2
FYI, PPA is not official ubuntu, nothing near it.
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