Bug#784070: is it maybe possible to settle dislikings and fix this bug?

[Michael Tokarev]

03.10.2015 18:32, jolly eissucht пишет:
> Dear /mjt,
> 
> I refer to your messages. Thank you very much for explaining and
> answering to this bug report!
> 
> I got the following questions:
> 
> 1) What would you suggest as correct workaround for this problem? (as
> you only point out that serverfault solution is wrong. I mean
> workarounds that are applicable right now (also for DAUs...)

serverfault solution isn't exactly wrong, it is incomplete, it
does not cover a situation when you have slow-to-appear devices.
This solution, however, fixes the problem in this bugreport,
a problem which I introduced when I tried to address the problem
with slow-to-appear devices.  Ofcourse it is better to be able
to boot from a degraded raid than to be able to boot from slow
devices, esp. since the latter had a workaround.  So in this
sense, serverfault solution will fix _this_ bug.

> 2) Did I understand you correctly? You said that nobody is going to fix
> this bug because of disliking on another. Can there nothing be done
> about that? Seems to harm debian project if you ask DAU users like me
> that switched to Debian because of greater stability, faster fixes for
> problems...

No your understanding is wrong.  I don't have any dislike to anyone.

But I also dislike doing work which is being thrown away by others,
since this is a pure waste of time/energy, and time is a very scarse
resource.  I don't want to do any work if I know this work will be
thrown away, and here, debian-installer people did throw my work
a) without a good reason and b) without actual rights for that.

So I stopped maintaining all software which is related to debian-installer,
because now I know it is just a waste of time.  As simple as that, and
there's nothing like dislike of someone in there, there's nothing
personal.

In short, I don't maintain mdadm anymore, so there's no reason to
ask me about it.

Thanks,

/mjt