First of all, Othmar's problem report is about an independant bug, though it is loosely related to Ethan's wishlist report.
Secondly, I have been away on personal business and have not been able to fix all RC (ie, important or above) base-config bugs until this morning. This includes #117741, which is an independant report of the same issue Othmar reported. Ethan Benson wrote, on the 10th on November: > since the maintainer of base-config has demonstrated a complete > unwillingness to fix this bug I am prepared to commit a patch to > boot-floppies baseconfig.c to ask the user if they wish for .debs to > be removed or not, if they do not, the relevant code that silently > removes them will be deleted from the base-config install in /target/ > > this is of course not the correct solution, the correct solution is > for the base-config maintainer to cooperate and fix this, but if he > refuses to be useful we shall have to fix it another way (unless > someone wishes to NMU and reNMU when new versions revert the fix.) Thirdly, this suggestion both ignores my history of debian package maintainance and participation in debian-boot (IMHO), and is technically disgusting, and I'm sure that the rest of the boot floppies team has better sense than Ethan is showing with these asurd threats. Fourthly, I don't killfile coworkers on projects, because I belive that that can lead to disastrous breakdowns in communications. I may, however, leave projects in disgust. My disgust level with Ethan is currently quite high. Threatening to abuse boot-floppies commit privlidges to put in a disgusting hack. Insinuating that I would silently ignore NMU's. These are not behaviors I expect to see from a member of this project. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
