Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:47:22PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> In any case, I want to note what has just happened here. You received >> a clear, easily implemented, request about what would be a wonderful >> contribution, and which is (from the Debian perspective) entirely >> non-controversial. >> >> Your response was not to say "yes, great!" but rather to argue about >> whether these are things Debian should care about, and protest that >> they are not valuable and take too much work. > > What I saw was that a discussion with a practical point (treatment of the > Maintainer field) was sidetracked because you started to focus on the > Version field instead, and I asked you to justify your concern.
I think both of these are important. Even more important is certainly the bug-reporting issue, I think. > Furthermore, regardless of whether you think it is easy, a global change of > the Version field is not something that I can even consider making in the > middle of our short release cycle, so it really isn't much of a priority at > this time. Of course, but all that takes is "ah, this makes sense, we'll look at it for the next release; since that's a short cycle, it's not a long wait." I am extremely patient with the plea that doing something takes time and energy, and so it will happen eventually but not right away. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
