[bzr-explorer] Please test latest changes in bzr-explorer trunk

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 5/10/2011 9:50 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
> 
>> Ben Finney writes:
>>
>>  > But you do, presumably, have the packages around.
>>
>> I have no idea why you would presume such a thing.
> 
> Because Alexander referred to the packagers hiding their activities in
> deep dark places, it seemed that the alternatives were either that
> Alexander was being disingenuous, being lazy, or that he had already
> looked everywhere obvious for information about the packages in which he
> is interested.
> 
> It would be insulting to assume he's lazy or disingenuous. Looking
> inside the package itself for information about that package seems
> obvious for a clever fellow like Alexander. Hence my presumption that he
> has found the information recorded in the packages that hold his
> interest.

Alexander is a Windows developer who, as far as I know, doesn't have a
Linux machine around to test on. He certainly knows about Linux, and
knows that his work has been packaged there, but he doesn't have a way
to directly interact with those packages. Instead, he gets bug reports
from people using his software from those packagers, but no way to
really respond to them.

I don't think he is disingenuous or lazy. It is *not* his responsibility
to maintain the packaging on all possible platforms. He is actually
reaching out to the existing packagers to make their lives as easy as
possible (by informing them when dependencies have changed). He is
looking for those channels, but saying "well the information is in the
output from the packagers" is not particularly helpful.


John
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