For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

Stephan Hermann sh at sourcecode.de
Tue Jan 17 06:08:19 GMT 2006


Good morning Joey,

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 00:36, Joey Hess wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > It's a hell of a lot better than having useless crap with your
> > name on it in a stable release of something as high profile as Ubuntu,
> > though.
>
> FYI, I refuse to allow the fact that my code happens to be present in
> a currently perceived as high profile distribution to hold my time
> hostage. I've never done it before with other high profile distributions
> (Corel's mangling of alien comes to mind), and I won't start now. The
> correct action in these circumstances is a sufficiently evolved
> killfile.
>
> Please consider ALL code written/maintained by me that is present in
> Ubuntu and is not bit-identical to code/binaries in Debian to be not
> suitable for release with my name on it.

Would you please send this request to ubuntu-devel, because I think many 
packages of yours are hiding not only in our Universe repository, but most 
likely in the main repositories as well. And it would be good if you include 
Matt as Release Manager directly.

Yours truly,

\sh
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