Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

Joerg Schilling
2004-08-10T15:55:49Z

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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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