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On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 02:25:48PM +0900, dhenman wrote:
>I agree that the question (about why you want to ) should not be asked
>and agree with rights and benefits of open source software.
>
>Rather than a seemingly condensending question, a simple factual
>statement mentioning the existence of an existing package (which can be
>some distance downstream) is all that's needed.
>
>A lot of bugs and fixes are found by people exploring the newer
>versions of packages and their efforts at finding solutions could help
>everyone when upgrading time comes for others, as long as they inform
>us, or they might find an obscure bug in cygwin, whose fix would help
>everyone as well.

Rather than quibble about how the question is asked or how the
information is presented how about if we just assume good intentions all
around and avoid reading condescension into attempts to help?  If you
agree that it is appropriate to mention that a binary exists then there
we shouldn't have to spend a lot of time tip-toeing around sensibilities
to make sure that no one is offended by the way it is mentioned.

cgf

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