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Debian buries itself in general resolutions

Debian buries itself in general resolutions

Posted Sep 21, 2006 16:10 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (guest, #15888)
Parent article: Debian buries itself in general resolutions

Is it just me, or is this starting to sound like a Monty Python sketch?

Perhaps Debian should adopt a different naming scheme for releases -- the "dead parrot" version, for example. Or perhaps after cheeses...


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Or perhaps after cheeses...

Posted Sep 21, 2006 17:11 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

Actually, the shadow (passwd) packages releases in Debian are named after cheeses:

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/shadow/...

Debian buries itself in general resolutions

Posted Sep 21, 2006 19:19 UTC (Thu) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link]

If you were able to see the internal workings of any large organization you would see things like this, I know that is true for the corporations that I have worked for. Criticizing the Debian project because the internal workings are open is just lame, in my opinion. It is understandable that a proposal to pay certain people for their efforts would be controversial.

Debian buries itself in general resolutions

Posted Sep 23, 2006 10:00 UTC (Sat) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

You have a point, but I think it is fair to point out silly things when
they are silly. This collective set of actions is, from a broad,
disentangled view, quite amusing, and pointing that out is fair.

Surmising that Debian is some sort of a joke project overall because some
silly things occur would be an error, of course.

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