xvidcore broken - ok to use CDBS?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:06:53PM +0200, Alessio Treglia wrote:
>Jonas,
>
>On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> From now on I will stay away whenever my intended help involves CDBS 
>> (for packages not already using it), as that is essentially what you 
>> tell me to do.
>
>I admire you and your work, I think you're are a great experienced 
>Debian Developer but your words sound really odd to me.
>
>As you know, I prefer using DH but this doesn't make me refuse to help 
>anyone who would like to maintain an interesting package using CDBS 
>only (or CDBS+debhelper) rather than the abbreviated pure DH7 
>short-form. Of course I suggest to my sponsorees to use DH, but if they 
>feel more comfortable to choose some other tool which allows them to do 
>an appreciable job well, I can assure you that I don't raise any 
>particular objections. Even if they decide to not follow my advices and 
>go on using CDBS.
>
>The reason is easy to find: we are a team and IMHO what we should do is 
>a collaborative effort. That is a bit different from playing against 
>ourselves.


Thanks for the kind words.

I suspect that perhaps my compact statement was open to 
misinterpretation.  Let me try elaborate a bit:

  * I want to help where I can and where my help is welcome.
  * I cannot help with issues directly tied to short-form dh, since I am 
    not familiar with this technique.
  * I will no longer offer my help with issues that could be solved using 
    either short-form dh or CDBS - except when CDBS is already used.
  * I will continue to offer my help with issues unrelated to short-form 
    dh or CDBS.

Do you still find it odd?


Kind regards,

-- 
  * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt
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