Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

On 2007-05-31, Nic James Ferrier <nferrier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I fully accept the ramifications of Debian's democratic process. But
Debian has made a big mistake here; tearing useful stuff out of
packages because of a political decision without providing an
automatic upgrade is stupid. It *will* lose you users.


Or are they going to accept that doing this is pretty stupid and
driving people away and that another way should be found than the
current package vandalism.


As frustrating as it may be, they do have a valid reason. If it's any
compensation, this is a temporary situation. Once all the docs have
been moved to non-free you'll have access to them via apt-get again,
and the issue shouldn't come up again. We're just in the middle of an
awkward transition at the moment.

Tyler


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