On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Toni Mueller wrote: > Of course I can. I have just forwarded you (Paul) the mail exchange > pertaining to that case that should shed some light on the initial > problems, but the gist of it is that I could not get the dbconfig-common > stuff to run reliably, while the freeze was approaching rapidly. As I > wanted the package to really make it into Squeeze, Nikolai was mostly > unavailable to help at that time, and I was stuck, I removed everything > that I could not fix, thus making at least the leftovers work correctly, > and the package move into the release. > > There's generally nothing wrong with using the available toolchain, but > a working bare-bones package takes precedence over a non-working package > with bells and whistles, in my book at least. I can also provide a > bazaar or git repo that details the evolution of the package, if > desired. That would allow you to form your own opinion, and maybe > provide me with feedback about what went wrong.
Given the circumstances, that seems to be a reasonable set of actions. Now that the next freeze is approaching, I hope you can both work together to get the dbconfig-common stuff working again. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6hatt7c3uxschvbsjysjnhjiwzzxyxh_wvnr8amldc...@mail.gmail.com
