On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, nil wrote: > >From an outsider's point of view Debian looks like the most > irresponsible distro with no contact whatsoever with original > package authors.
Ahem, please don't label the entire Debian project on the basis of the actions of one person who (AFAICT) isn't even a Debian Developer (ie someone who is actually capable of uploading packages into the Debian distribution). Debian's manuals on the subject do talk about contacting upstream, and working closely with upstream authors is highly emphasised. I see no reason to go spare at the entire project because someone didn't listen. I also note that you said you "have no interest in Debian", but you're willing to make the presumption that "Debian looks like the most irresponsible distro". Wild jump, that one. I will agree with you, though, that it would have been nice for the person involved to make great pains to contact you before hijacking - which they did (although perhaps not in the order I would have done it). I have a question for you, though: why is it, do you think, that someone would have thought that playmidi was "quite dead" upstream? I have no idea what the answer is, it's really between you and the person who made the claim, but are there e-mail addresses associated with playmidi which are no longer read? Is the current location of development information clearly available on search engines and in package source? Are there old locations referenced in source tarballs which are dead? This presumption of death must have come from somewhere... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16
