On Nov 9, 2007 11:36 AM, Jürgen Hötzel <juergen@hoetzel.info> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:11:45AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
Are you saying that you do not wish to maintain the kernel? That's fine - no one is forcing your hand, and I'd be willing to do it in your stead.
I don't like the conversation style: It's not fine. Technical opinions differ but tpowa does the hard job and I'm glad he is doing a good job. Vanilla is our primary target but sometimes you have to take a pragmatic approach on special packages like the kernel.
Let me rephrase that then: "If you do not want to maintain the kernel, no one will hold it against you" I understand tpowa does the hard work, but the issue here is that a large chunk of the developers are against this change, are against the feature-creep that's showing up in the kernel package. If that's something that cannot be lived with by the current maintainer, then we simply need a new maintainer - this is true of ANY package. If people are saying "oh god, you're screwing this up!" and a maintainer refuses to listen, well, that's a problem.