On Fri January 14 2011 03:51:48 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Am 13.01.2011 11:54, schrieb Olaf van der Spek: > > Instead of stepping down, it might be better to ask for a co-maintainer. > > You mean like this http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested? > Let's have a look: > > # chromium-browser [..] requested 228 days ago. > # dpkg [..] requested 2245 days ago. > # grub2 [..] requested 2439 days ago. > # libreoffice [..] requested 1368 days ago. > > Any other good ideas? Perhaps something new ideas, which isn't already > practices?
On occasion when I've found a kernel bug or gcc bug or perl bug, or wanted to add a new feature to inn, I've been able to scratch my itch immediately. The impression I get of Debian is that in order to contribute I need to spend a year or so humoring somebody with a tenth my programming experience. If that impression is wrong, I'd really like to fix at least two major bugs in Squeeze: (1) sysv-rc upgrade should not bring in insserv and wreck startup on systems more complicated than a basic laptops, without adequate warning, and "irreversibly". (Note that due to ass-backward design, restoring /etc does not prevent insserv from wreaking havoc again. You have to also "touch /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering".) (2) KDE4 is not an upgrade from KDE3. It is despicable to push KDE4 onto KDE3 users. The correct upgrade path is Trinity. Not only is Trinity a continuation of KDE3, unlike KDE4, but it is also far more stable and reliable. Debian's KDE maintainers can't even keep up with the torrent of KDE4 bugs now, and that will increase enormously when Squeeze is released. Last time I checked, and also six months ago, KDE4 doesn't even create a working KMail account due to missing MySQL dependencies. If people want to install a kde4 package in Squeeze that should be permitted if Debian's KDE maintainers are willing to support it, but the correct upgrade path from Lenny's kde is Trinity, not KDE4. (Thank you to Debian's KDE maintainers for getting this right for Lenny.) Note that we're not talking coding errors here. We're talking about abuse of the Debian packaging system so that people can push their favorite software at the expense of Debian's users. Apart from the above, Squeeze is looking to be another excellent Debian release. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101141011.51907.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net
