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Mentalist Traceur
2014-05-30 , 05:11
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So I see NMap got updated (awesome) and that the prior devel version was pushed to testing (what?).
Now, I get that we're a dwindling community and the users of testing probably number in the single digits, but there was a reason why the original maintainer never pushed the update to testing: it simply didn't work on the stock driver like the prior versions, and only worked on the injection-capable one (I think something about interfaces changed and the new one had it while the old one didn't).
So what, we pushed a package that simply does not work with the stock driver, into testing? And we did NOT update the dependency list to specify that any of the packages that provide the injection drivers (that also provide whatever else we still need)? As maintainers we shouldn't be doing that.
I guess it's partly my fault: I actually failed to step up as maintainer myself (but in my defence, I also didn't know I was maintainer until about a month or two ago, no idea when my maintainer request got approved; and I have been trying to finish college and secure a fulltime well-paying job so that I could afford to contribute to things like this later.)
xes: All of the above said, I really appreciate you getting this release out (whether it's one release or indefinite maintenance).Thank you for taking the time and effort to do so.
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