Re-sending for archival in BTS. I still feel rather strongly that a wrong and bad design decision has been made here.
Dirk On 27 September 2012 at 06:26, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | (CCing Ole) | | On 27 September 2012 at 08:38, Ondřej Surý wrote: | | severity 688929 wishlist | | tags 688929 +wontfix | | thank you | | | | On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: | | > | | > Package: parallel | | > Version: 20120422-1 | | > Severity: serious | | | | How on the earth is this a serious bug? Please go read about Debian | | Because it makes parallel deviate from the upstream behaviour. | | It creates effectively a different program. Not good at all. | | | severities before you fill your next Debian bug: | | http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities | | I have been a Debian maintainer since 1995. I am aware of this. I chose | "serious" because YOU are breaking assumed behaviour. | | But I give up. I don't have it in me. I'll just tell people not to use | Debian's parallel. That's a first in the 17 years I have been involved in | this. | | | > On the parallel list, I had a long-ish exchange with Ole about something | | > (mostly me not understanding awk semantics ;-) but it also lead to me | | > complaining that his example don't work ... which it turns out is due to the | | > package installing the (very non-standard) option --tollef in | | > /etc/parallel/config. | | | | This is to ensure compatibility with standard parallel tool and was a | | result of a compromise done when the package entered Debian, for a | | full background see: | | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518696 | | C'mon now, moreutils is a useful, but _much more local_ and Debian-specific | collection that does (probably) not exists outside of Debian. | | That choice was a mistake IMHO. | | Dirk | | | > Ole strongly suggests not to. I think he is right. Could this be undone? | | > | | > He also has a new stable release 20120822. | | | | And Debian is frozen preparing for next release, so no new upstream | | versions are allowed. | | | | O. | | -- | | Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> | | -- | Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
