Core-Dev Application: Till Kamppeter

[Stefan Potyra]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch 02 April 2008 19:06:56 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> Hi,
>
> Stefan Potyra [2008-04-02 18:35 +0200]:
> > The original mail didn't state anything about binary patching or linker
> > problems
>
> Most of these discussions happened in private mail, when we discussed
> what the best approach would be to solve the /usr/local/ problem. We
> finally came to the conclusion that some sed hack in the binary
> packages were the least intrusive solution.

Actually I was referring to the original mail in this thread after my question 
about the difficulties with the brother packages.

>
> > What's the package wich does binary patching, as I'm personally
> > interested how it's done.
>
>  
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brother-lpr-drivers-bh7/1.0.0-9-0ubunt
>u3

Ah, uh, oh, ok. Creative. Awkward. Should work, and with a little bit of luck 
won't break in the future. I guess some comments should really be there in 
debian/rules, otherwise noone would ever find out what's being done there 
(and noone who wouldn't know of this hack would ever find out what the bug 
is, in case it should break).

Now for reviewing in NEW: Yes, it confused me quite a bit. It's not wrong 
imho, as our policy doesn't describe where the reviewing needs to take place, 
nor does it state anything about the double role an archive can take when 
also having the mentor hat on. It takes away the learning effect for other 
people though, if it's done in a non-public place, but that's a different 
story.

Still, reading the messages that Till sent so far in this thread, I'm actually 
getting more and more convinced, that he lacks packaging skills.

Cheers,
   Stefan.