Andres Mejia <amejia...@gmail.com> writes: > Note that Christian Marillat is a Debian Developer. He should be > subscribed to this list.
There is no requirement that a Debian Developer be subscribed to debian-devel, only debian-devel-announce. If I were Christian and saw a thread in debian-devel, even assuming I was reading it, with a subject header of "X considered harmful," where X is something that I put a lot of time and energy into, and I was feeling wise that day and made the right decision on how to invest my time, I would add a filter rule sending the whole thread to /dev/null and go on with my life. If I were feeling foolish, I'd engage instead, but I'd probably just waste my time and energy. If someone wanted to do something productive about this, it would look more like following up on Zack's summary of what would make a useful disclaimer for the front of debian-multimedia.org, combined with possibly making a list of packages in d-m.o that are no longer useful because they've been superseded by packages in Debian proper and which may be good removal candidates from that archive. And then bring that up with Christian directly, and politely. Some gratitude for taking a legal risk for Debian users who want to have packages of multimedia software that Debian cannot distribute directly would be nice too. I realize that the folks working on multimedia packages in Debian are probably fairly frustrated at this point by user confusion and misdirected bug reports, but Christian isn't doing the work he's doing just to make you angry or your lives difficult, and that work really does serve a purpose, even if parts of it may be buggy. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87obrtv8ze....@windlord.stanford.edu
