[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd v221

[Michael Biebl]

2015-06-19 16:38 GMT+02:00 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> On Fri, 19.06.15 16:29, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> > If something is not in shape we'll revert it. Regardless of the
>> > general merits of the patch set: this one actually broke stuff, it
>> > was incomplete. Either you make the man pages dynamic, or you ship
>> > them pre-built. The patch set did both. That's broken, and hence has
>> > no place in a release. And I'd much rather see that stuff removed
>> > again than having to delay the release further.
>> >
>> >> Not amused, not amused at all.
>> >
>> > I am sorry you feel that way.
>> >
>> > I am not sure though what you suggest: delay releases until zero
>> > bugfixes have been applied for a week? Well, that would mean we'd
>> > never do releases again, sorry. We have to release some time. On
>>
>> Bullshit. That's been in master for a while and the justification for
>> reverting appear to totally made up.
>
> I wasn't the one who reverted it or even involved in the
> discussions. But what I saw is that the patch was borked, since it one
> one hand tried to ship the man pages pre-built but also wanted to make
> them different depending on ./configure runs. And that's just
> *broken*.

The justification for the revert basically boil down to:
let's make it as hard as possible and use systemd as a stick to force
them to not use split-usr.

The "arguments" for the for the patch being broken are completely made up.


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