On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 10:23:37AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 19 August 2017 09:30:10 Nicolas George wrote: > > > Le duodi 2 fructidor, an CCXXV, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > > So when do we get that ported and into debian, replacing this > > > gibberish generator called ip, so we can just get back to doing the > > > things we want to do with a computer? > > > > Never. Debian developers are not your lackeys. > > I (in the first person sense) do not expect them to be, but when a change > is made, and its not an improvement the users can see, as evidenced by > the level and tone of rhetoric seen here about it, whatever "it" might > be, something decent docs would tamp down, I'd expect some adjustments > to be made.
> Either in the docs, It's just doco, even other genders can do that, so by all means ... feel free to help out. > or the code. It's just codind, even other genders can do that, so by all means ... feel free to help out. > I don't believe for a > millisecond the writers are trying to make life for the average user > harder, "we understand it, why can't you", but we aren't you, we don't > understand why a useful tool has been deprecated. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> >
