Re: Concerning uniliateral decision making with respect to the coreutils package

Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> writes:

>> > Just to for the record:
>> > 
>> > My issue is not at all with you adding variants, uutils or otherwise. My
>> > issue is with you silent changing the "coreutils" package to be uutils
>> > coreutils. Your message does nothing to address that point.
>> 
>> ...an experimental upload...
>> ...for a specific purpose requested by another developer for a test...
>> ...months ago, with no follow-up uploads or discussion afterwards...
>> ...and with later uploads of the coreutils package that have absolutely
>>    no trace of these changes...
>> 
>> ...so I would say this is *exactly* what Debian experimental is for -
>> experiments that may never see another upload, ever, depending on
>> how things turn out.
>
> ...and just in case it wasn't clear from my message, let me spell it out:
>
> From the beginning of this thread, I was pretty much sure that this was
> NOT any conspiracy to, secretly, without discussion, replace Debian's
> coreutils package.
>
> After Julian Andres's message, I became 100% certain of that.

Just to reiterate, I had seen the experimental update months ago. I
agree that it is perfectly fine to do that.

The only reason I became concerned was upon seeing this text on a site
managed by another Debian developer (who does not maintain the
"coreutils" package):

    Debian is also following Ubuntu's path toward making uutils the
    default.

I do not think it is an unreasonable assumption to think that one would
discuss on debian-devel before making definitive claims like this.

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