[repo-coord] Re: Blackmailing ...

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:21:21AM +0200, Bert de Bruijn wrote:
>
> > That point seems to be "Dag, your package A obsoletes my package B. This 
> > prevents end users to use both our repositories. What shall we do to solve 
> > this ?"
> 
> and also add that this obsoleting is technically totally
> unneccessary. It only serves to explicitly break the compatibility!

Axel, you've been insinuating all along that I've been doing this on 
purpose and to harm you. Which is totally exagerated. I've been obsoleting 
uncommon names for packages since the day I started packaging. The 
madwifi obsoletes was probably already there before you packaged your 
madwifi packages.

Look at my other kernel module packages, they too obsolete uncommon names. 
If it breaks with your package this is unfortunate, but you must 
understand that I'm not going to solve this isolated incident as long as 
there is no standard.

I have (as I told you) more than 4900 kernel module packages for different 
kernels, rebuilding them for an isolated case is not an option.


May I also note that I don't agree with the style you have been 
communicating. You start from the notion that it was intentional and then 
starts blaming and insinuating. I've been trying to ignore that. But if 
you strive to a solution, you should read what I say before shouting.

If something I say doesn't make sense to you, ask why I come to a 
conclusion instead of ridiculing it.

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