OpenCSW catalog update report

Riccardo Mottola rmottola at opencsw.org
Thu Aug 6 23:08:46 CEST 2015


Hi Laurent,


Laurent Blume ha scritto:

> Riccardo,
>
> I would rather like to know what the fuck you think you are doing.
>
> You've been tinkering (ie, breaking) that package, and I had to step in
> to fix your mistakes.

well sorry, the package was broken to begin with. A package where I 
can't type "mgar build" is broken, so I was trying to fix it, not break 
it. it surely means it hadn't been built and updated since a while.

>
> Now you are just taking it over, without any polite asking for it, and
> AFAICT, without making a single committed change that would require a
> reupload.

No single change? apart from it not working, it had to be updated to 
libpng16.
Also, since I update glib, it is a good idea to reresh reverse depencies.

Other packages depending on it were not compiling for problems with it, 
so I thought a refresh would be a good thing. (cairo)

Many reasons thus to refresh a build, don't you think?

Also, I asked you if you were going to upload the package yourself, 
after the fixes you did. I waited a day to see if you would upload it, I 
asked if you were done, I got no answer and just uploaded it since it 
built fine for me.

>
> I'm all good to give packages to other maintainers, since I've got less
> time to deal with them myself, even to those who have shown
> unwillingness to make their own research.
>
> But in your position, the *very least* you can do is *ask*.

No intention to "steal" the package from you! I don't want to rob the 
glory. Perhaps I'm not as touchy about being a maintainer of a certain 
package, since it just get assigned/changed with an upload. I can even 
think it as a bit inconvenient: another person can't step in temporarily.

Sorry,

Riccardo



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