On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 01:09 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sat January 15 2011 00:51:42 Neil Williams wrote: > > Mike, you missed the sarcasm completely and just went on another > > rant about two (unrelated) bugs which affect you directly. Guess what > > - I don't give two flying figs about those two specific issues because > > they don't affect me. I care about the underlying problem. > > We ran into those bugs while testing Squeeze and have for the most > part worked around them. We now know never to enable insserv. We > may even add some hacks to our systems to prevent sysv-rc from nagging > us. And we know to remove KDE 4 and install Trinity.
Sorry to de-lurk with a tangential question, but how can I as an interested observer subscribe to the conversations where these decisions get made, and contribute views *before* things get to this stage? I have had the same frustrations as Mike and Roger with insserv, and although I don't use KDE I have a third example of this problem, where a deeply flawed "upgrade" broke several of my systems and the maintainers' response was basically "too bad" (GRUB2). Is there some forum in which the choice of a default for a package or service gets made? I subscribe to debian-devel and debian-policy, but neither seems to contain discussions about the risks of replacing perfectly good defaults with significantly flawed ones. On a completely separate note, where is the correct place to advertise for a new sponsor? I have not heard from mine for nine months, and I have a new version of my package and a new related package to upload. Thanks, CC -- 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/1295086204.2740.20.camel@junior.sadnet
