Bug#415247: exim4 and exim4-debian maintainers too stupid and irresponsible

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Sat Mar 17 14:12:40 CET 2007


Package: exim4
Version: 4.24-3
Severity: important


this bug is in response to several bug reports which i have raised
regarding exim4, which are all to do with improving exim4.  each and
every such bug has been treated with derision.

READ THIS ARTICLE:

	http://mako.cc/writing/to_fork_or_not_to_fork.html

excert from http://advogato.org/person/lkcl/diary.html?start=373

and this, from the summary - my favourite:

    It's becoming increasingly difficult to reproduce these large
    projects. While reproducing entire project is impossible for small
    groups of hackers, it is often not even possible for small groups
    to even track and maintain a fork of a large project over time.

it emphasises the RESPONSIBILITY and the DUTY that free software
developers have. we are GUARDIANS OF KNOWLEDGE - for the WORLD.

if you cannot accept that responsibility, to provide all things to all
people, **** OFF AND GIVE IT TO SOMEONE WHO CAN.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  exim4-base                    4.24-3     EXperimental Internal Mailer -- a 
ii  exim4-daemon-light            4.24-3     Lightweight version of the Exim (v

exim4 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information




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