On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II wrote: > Who uses dselect anymore?
Call me "Mr. Stone-age", but I do still use dselect sometimes. > This is about a package maintianers *duty to > account for _likely conflicts_. Ok, this gets me a bit upset. There are always unforeseen (or just plain forgotten-about) conflicts that come up. I've been guilty myself of uploading packages that turned out to have horrid bugs in them (which I quickly corrected, but never heard the end of it), but no maintainer that I know purposely releases something maliciously to wreck a user's setup. Also, you seem to forget that us Debian maintainers are VOLUNTEERS. I have sacrificed quite a bit to this project in general, and have spent countless cpu cycles trying to make sure that the new X packages worked well on Alpha (including over 36 hours of patching so far). To say that I have a *duty* to do this is moderately insulting since this work has taken time away from my family, my hobbies, and my other interests. From your argument, if I happen to upload a bad package before going on holiday, I should be flamed to death.... C
