* Glenn Maynard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030422 05:50]: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:25:39PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > banner at startup is inconvenient. However just cutting it out is not > > a good way to resolve the bug. The maintainer made a mistake here. > > It ought to be obvious that removing a author/sponsor notice would be > > likely to offend. > It's not obvious. Removing a sponsorship notice is something I'd do without > a second thought; it's nothing more than advertisement and it's just as > annoying to me as a banner ad. I object: There is always a cause why a certain message is output. A debian maintainer should (morally) at least ask what the upstream maintainer thinks about removing the sponsorship message and remove it against the will of the upstream maintainer only in very rare cases after appropriate discussions within the debian project. Everything else is at least very unfriendly. (I'm not speaking formally whether the removal is allowed, and consequences for the freedomsnes of the software in respect to debians guidelines. That's a totally different discussion.) Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C Fachbegriffe des Schienenverkehrs #1 von Marc Haber in dasr Alles wird billiger: 50 % Preiserhöhung für Stammkunden.
