Re: Latest Glibc from CVS has segmentation problems.

["Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Marcus Brinkmann <marcus.brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> Ulrich has done a great job defending glibc against outside crap,
> and at improving its implementation.  From what I have seen, this
> has been a consistent stance.  Among other things, this is what his
> responsibility as the maintainer entails (at least in my opinion).

There is no question that Ulrich does some parts of his job extremely
well.  There is also no question that he does other parts extremely
poorly.

> In my opinion, it is not the responsibility of the maintainer to be
> the support guy for everybody.

I am not claiming his responsibility includes supporting anybody!  But
he goes beyond not providing support.  He tells newbies "you are a
random person and therefore should not be compiling glibc", which is
absurd.

And his responsibility does include making releases, doesn't it?

 - Pat