Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:54:42 +0200 (CEST) | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices |
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>From skraw@ithnet.com Tue Aug 10 17:48:20 2004
>Sometimes forking is unavoidable and necessary. On Joergs side things are >pretty easy. All he has to tell the people is that according to the version >spec they sent he refuses to help them, because they use a forked version. >The true story behind may be that nobody wants to use his version for certain >pecularities and that therefore merely no feedback is reaching him (any more).
The true story is that I constantly send out such messages and that the people are happy after they did upgrade to a non broken original version.
The problem behind this true story is that the number of people having problems with unnecessarily broken versions from the distro's is far too high.
Jörg
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