[Bug 226377] Merge Review: rpm

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:46:32PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Friday, 24 August 2007 at 13:31, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:38:59AM +0200, Robert Scheck wrote:
> > > IMAO this is nothing that has to be discussed at advisory board. Or are we
> > > going to discuss glibc vs. uclibc or similar things there, too? Thanks.
> > 
> > If the board had decided in the past to chose using only glibc because
> > the developer of uclibc has become actively non-cooperative, then we
> > sure would do so. The rpm5 political issue has been too often an issue
> > of the board in the past, and we should try to keep it there, in the
> > past.
> > 
> > There is no benefit in Fedora carrying an alternative package to a
> > critical base system component with an anti-upstream. At the very
> > least we derail the efforts of the in-house rpm development.
> > 
> > That's all a political discussion. The technical divergencies follow
> > from the non-cooperation policy.
> > 
> > FWIW some of the decisions that made rpm5 incompatible to Fedora/RHEL
> > were made known to rpm5's developer beforehand and he didn't care
> > about it. In fact if you just try to conatct the devloper and say that
> > this and this is an issue in Fedora and whether he could make that a
> > compile time switch you will probably get very nasty vocal attributes
> > in return.
> 
> That depends on who contacts him. To me, he's been quite approachable,
> but I imagine there are some @redhat folks he won't talk to. IMHO your
> generalization is unfounded.

I don't have a redhat.com address, contacted him in a friendly manner,
pointed out that making rpm behave like dpkg would break Fedora and
RHEL and was accused of premature ejaculation. Pointing out that this
was a rude remark he started practicing his French and Greek on me.

So this is not a generalization but personal experience. And forget
about myself, he's on a crusade against Fedora/RHEL for whatever
reasons he has. Just try the following:

echo "Dear Jeff, for Fedora and RHEL we'd like to be able to switch back to letters < digits, could you make that a compile time switch? Thanks, Dominik" | mail jbj

And turn off your spam filter that may be filtering on vulgar idioms.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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