Am Freitag, den 24.02.2012, 22:18 -1000 schrieb david: > On 02/24/2012 09:15 PM, hermann wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 24.02.2012, 20:22 -1000 schrieb david: > >> On 02/24/2012 08:10 PM, hermann wrote: > >>> Am Samstag, den 25.02.2012, 06:19 +0100 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > >>>> For what reason the nv driver is dropped right now? > >>>> > >>>> - Ralf > >>> > >>> The answer is simpler the you suspect: > >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612189 > >> > >> Simply put it this way: Something that doesn't get maintained (probably > >> because the egos of the developers aren't stroked so much doing > >> maintenance than developing something new) STILL SHOULDN'T BE REMOVED > >> WHEN IT'S THE ONLY OPTION THAT WORKS. > >> > >> Bah. > > > > That's the wrong conclusion. Maybe it strikes you hard, I understand > > that, but don't forget that all work in debian is done for free, every > > one do what he think is necessary. > > Yah, that's the big weakness of FLOSS: only doing what some individual > might think is necessary (programmer scratching his or her own itches). > I think FLOSS audio is bitten by that problem a lot. what did you suspect here ? Users are always welcome to give feedback, suggestions, or at least, become a part of the project. That is what FLOSS is about. FLOSS isn't about to present you a OS on a silver tablet, FLOSS will always force you to make it work. It is community based. If you didn't help, the community get a bit smaller, and a piece of work fail. what did you think why a developer develop Free Open Software ? And what did you think why a debian maintainer do what he do ? Do you believe they do it to suite there ego's ? > > > Also note please that nor the nv driver or the nouveau driver are > > developed by debian, they are part of Xorg/Xf86, so also your conclusion > > over the egos of the debian "workers" is wrong. > > Same egotism problem, just different organization. Isn't it egoism from you, to try to force people to do what "you" want? And try that by blame them ? I guess this way wouldn't work. > > > Again, if you wish to see this package back in debian, offer your work > > for free and just do it. or, try to find someone how do it for you. > > Or select a distribution, witch offer this package to you. > > > > A un-maintained package can't be a part of the distribution. It makes no > > mater if it is the only working solution (for you), or not. > > What about packages that simply keep on working, require no maintenance, > etc? Do they get booted because they WORK without any changes? Like the > rhyme dictionary package did? > Sorry, I didn't understand this question, there is no rhyme dictionary package in debian/sid. It is un-maintained, so it is dropped. Every package in unstable need work to be done, at least every time when a library witch is used by the package, is changed. greets hermann _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
