Bug#660924: Very bad manners for a Debian maintainer.

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 04.03.2012 22:08, schrieb Sergio Cipolla:
> Fabian, who do you think you are to call d-m-o's packages as 'crappy'?
> d-m-o is a traditional and very respected 3rd party repository for
> Debian and has been for years.
> I can't tell the same of you.

I think I am contributing long enough to Debian to be able to effort 
an opinion about others:
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=fabian%2bdebian@greffrath.com

Who did you say you were?

> You know very well why it uses an epoch in their versioning: exactly
> so as people that want/need to use the extra features/packages it
> provides don't mix what shouldn't be mixed with the official Debian
> packages.

But they *do* mix. For example, d-m.o provides binary-imcompatible 
ffmpeg libraries that share SONAMEs with Debian's own. It simply 
breaks peoples' systems:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ#Common_issues

> I'm not sure if you're a Debian Maintainer or not (or worse, Debian
> Developer) but this kind of big mouthing shouldn't be accepted from a
> DM/DD.

I am neither a DD nor a DM, just a regular contributor.

> If I find out the proper channel for this I'll raise this subject so
> as the Debian contributors know that they should measure their words
> otherwise they should step down (even a 'do-ocracy' has its limits).

Who do you think *you* are. You are not going to shut *me* up.

Oh, BTW, d-m.o packages are crap! ;)

  - Fabian