$RPM_SOURCE_DIR (Was: Problems with core review)

John Dennis jdennis at redhat.com
Thu Feb 8 02:33:13 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 17:47 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I don't want to seem to ignore your other perfectly valid arguments,
> especially since one of them precisely duplicates an argument made in
> my original message.  I just think this needs to be treated
> separately:
> 
> >>>>> "JD" == John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> JD> -1 for the Bureaucrats in People's Central Packaging Committee and
> JD> their police who seek to banish me to the gulag for crimes against
> JD> spec files by virtue of improper thinking ;-)
> 
> So there's an emoticon there, but an emoticon isn't enough to hide the
> fact that there's an attitude here which really needs to be dealt
> with.  So I'll make it plain: I am on the packaging committee.

So I'll make it plain too, you led your email with this high handed
introduction over a trivial issue:

Jason> Frankly we expected that many Rad Hat folks would simply not
Jason> want to change things, and I suppose my personal hope of not
Jason> having to involve the packaging committee in making tons of
Jason> trivial rules in order to force people to change things is
Jason> dashed by this very thread.

Honestly, what response did you expect? Did you consider you might have
come across with what in your very words is "attitude here which really
needs to be dealt with". Enough said.

-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>




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